South Africa Builds Sugar Plant Based on RE in Nigeria

Nigeria has been seeking foreign investment, and the latest reward from its efforts is a South African company that plans to build a sugar factory in the West African country. Group managing director of Wise Design International Ltd. Williams Bawise said that the company pursued this investment as a party to earlier studies conducted by the renewable energy project on ethanol production by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Wise Design used the study, in addition to its previous findings on the suitability of the soil structure for sugarcane cultivation, in order to initiate what Bawise said would be “one of the largest sugar companies in Africa.”

The company will cultivate 40,000 hectares of sugarcane in Gombe state. Bawise said, “Our project would, in several ways, definitely add value to efforts by the state government to raise the living standards of the [Nigerian] people.”