Dantata Foods, Cross River to create jobs through agribusiness

Cross River State is partnering with one of  Africa’s leading Agro-processing firms, Dantata Foods and Allied Products Limited to promote Agribusiness and investment in the State.

Solacebase reports that under the partnership, Dantata foods will create twelve thousand(12,000) direct and indirect jobs in Cross River state through the various agro-processing program within the next three years.

This was made known by the Chairman of the company Alh. Tajudeen Aminu Dantata while briefing Government house correspondent shortly after a strategic investment meeting with the Governor, Prof Ben Ayade in Calabar, the Cross River state capital.

Represented by Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, the General Manager Corporate Services, Dantata Foods and Allied Products Limited, Alhaji Tajudeen Dantata said they were impressed by the ease of doing business policies of Ayade administration.

“We are here to support the state with a variety of agribusiness activities at all levels of four crops in the Agricultural value chains, Rice, maize, cotton and groundnut. We will engage smallholder farmers and establish processing plants in the state to create jobs for the teeming youth (men and women), ‘’Tajudeen Dantata said.

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On his part, Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state said agriculture is the future of Africa, as such, his administration places great value on the development of the sector as it guarantees mass employment to the citizenry with its attendant multiplier effects across the value chain.

Prof. Ayade further reiterated his commitment to providing an enabling environment for Agribusiness to thrive in the state.