The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) was established by Decree 88 of 1993 to among other things, promote the development of the Sugar sub-sector through the provision of guidance and the development of sugar estates and the organisation of sugarcane out-growers schemes to enhance local production of sugar with a view to ensuring that Nigeria achieves at least 70% self-sufficiency in sugar requirements as soon as possible.
The establishment of NSDC was informed by the realisation of the ineffectiveness and un-coordinated planning and control of the sugar subsector due to absence of a body/agency that could coordinate and monitor sugar development in Nigeria. This scenario created a demand gap since local sugar production could not catch up with the ever increasing demand. For instance, the demand for sugar, both domestic and industrial, was estimated to have grown from 43,000 tonnes in 1995 to about 700,000 tonnes in 1994 showing an average annual growth rate of 8% whereas local production accounts for only 50,000 tonnes or 5% of demand. The balance of 95% is imported.
Given the strategic importance of sugar, it became imperative that the nation’s precarious dependence on sugar importation be checked particularly since Nigeria has the potential to become a net exporter of sugar if the capacity of the existing sugar plants is enhanced, new plants established and sugarcane out-grower farmers encouraged and supported through provision of credit facilities, procurement of necessary inputs and development of basic infrastructure.
It is the realisation of this fact that informed the formulation of Government policy that set a target for Nigeria to achieve at least 70% self sufficiency level in Sugar requirement within the shortest possible time. Consequently, an Implemntation Committee on sugar sub-sector was established. One of the recommendations of the Committee was the establishment of Sugar Development Co-ordinating Agency, a body which would be responsible for coordinating all the various activities and forces that impinge on the sugar sub-sector in Nigeria. This eventually led to the establishment of National Sugar Development Council by Decree 88 of 1993.
Mission
To accelerate the development and growth of the local sugar industry in order to achieve a target of at least 70 percent self-sufficiency in national sugar requirement by the year 2010.
Vision
NSDC is committed to making Nigeria a notable player in the global sugar trade through policies and strategies that will harness our abundant natural and material resources to ensure national self-sufficiency in sugar with surplus to export to earn foreign exchange.
Address: Plot 1112, Emeka Anyaoku Street, (Opposite Radio House),P. M. B. 299, Garki, Abuja.
Phone: +234 9 2345617, 2345621, 2345622; Fax: +234 9 2345622
Email: contact@nsdc.gov.ng
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