…Inspects state-owned Benfruits, Benva factories
Raymond Asemakaha, Group Managing Director of Benue Investment and Property Company (BIPC) has said Benue State will harness and optimise its thribing agribusiness and agro-processing factories to add value to its abundant agricultural produce, especially fruits and vegetables to save Nigeria about N68 billion spent on the importation of fruit concentrates abroad.
He added that the Benue State Government, through its subsidiaries and agro-processing factories, including Bensoro Concentrate Plant and Benva Juice Factory, would process and add value to fruits and vegetables, especially oranges, mangoes, pineapples and tomatoes, as part of efforts to end post-harvest losses and stop the importation of fruit concentrates by offering the Country locally-made alternatives.
Asemakaha, who conducted Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State round Bensono Concentrate Plant and Benva Juice Factory located at Industrial Layout, Makurdi, noted that the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) had indicated Nigeria imported
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