All things being equal, the 32-metric tons per hour Rice Mill under construction by Lagos State Government in Imota area of Ikorodu division will start operations before end of March 2022.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu gave Nigerians this assurance after touring the project site on Friday.
Sanwo-Olu said the facility would have a test-run by the first quarter of next year, after which full production would commence in earnest.
Two years after his first visit, the Governor accompanied by Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms. Abisola Olusanya, went on an assessment of the biggest agro project being undertaken by a sub-national Government.
Sanwo-Olu showed excitement by the progress achieved on the site, having met the project from the foundation level. He said the project was expected to have been delivered by the end of 2020, but for the disruption occasioned by the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
He said: “I am happy with what I am seeing on the site and we are working to meet the deadline for the pre-production test run. We are going to charge our contractors working on site to ensure that by the end of the first quarter next year, this mill should have started operations; that is, we should start producing rice from here.
