By Nura Ridwan Ibrahim
The Dangote Group has said that it is putting hands on deck with strategic partners to resuscitate and strengthen the agricultural sector in view of its leading role to the Nigerian economy.
This development comes as the company sponsors the 17th National Agricultural Show, which opens on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, in Keffi, Nasarawa State.
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The company’s spokesman, Anthony Chiejina, revealed that expanding mechanised agricultural practices will play a critical role in boosting Nigeria’s GDP, besides creating meaningful employment opportunities for the country’s growing youth population.
He said the theme for this year’s Show: Employing Smallholder Farmers: Restoring Value, Ensuring Productivity will Ensure Attainment of Food Security in Nigeria, is apt.
He added that “through this partnership, the company aims to encourage greater participation in commercial agriculture and reinforce its role in advancing Nigeria’s economic growth.”
Mr. Chiejina said: “Restoring the value of agriculture offers Nigeria more than nostalgic appeal; it provides a pragmatic route to economic renewal.
“With the right incentives and modern practices, agriculture can once again serve as a reliable engine of growth, anchoring jobs, stabilising markets and giving the economy a sturdier foundation.”
The Agricultural Show, a fixture in Nigeria’s agricultural calendar, offers a platform for showcasing innovations across the value chain.
The statement said the company is currently developing rice mills in Kano, Jigawa, Niger, Kebbi, and Sokoto States, with a combined total milling capacity of 1.5 million tonnes per annum.
It noted that the effort is intended to support the government’s broader push for food security.
The statement quoted the Senior Adviser to the President of the Dangote Group, Mrs. Fatima Wali-Abdurrahman, saying that, in line with the company’s commitment to restoring value to agro-allied industrialisation in Nigeria, it is investing heavily in its backward-integration projects in the sugar sub-sector in Nasarawa and Adamawa States.
She said as part of its contribution to the agricultural sector, the company has a fertilizer complex in Lagos, located in the Lekki Free Trade Zone, with a production capacity of 3 million metric tonnes per annum of urea.
Speaking on the participation of the Dangote Group, Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT), National Agricultural Foundation of Nigeria, organisers of the annual National Agric Show, Arc. Kabiru Adamu, uncovered that Dangote Group has been the greatest ally since from inception and that, tremendous and invaluable support and cooperation have been enjoyed, without which the show would not hold efficiently.
Arc. Adamu, who is also the President, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) urged the Dangote Group to focus on agriculture, after its success in the oil and gas sector.
