NIGERIA AND CHINA SEALS DEAL ON COTTON INDUSTRY
Abuja
– The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Okechukwu Enelamah said on
Tuesday that Nigeria has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a
Chinese firm, on first-ever cotton value chain industry, worth two billion US
dollars. President Buhari with President of Ruyi group in China Enelamah, who
made this disclosure in Abuja at a news conference, said the MoU was signed
with Shandong Ruyi International Fashion Industry, a Chinese firm. The minister
explained that the agreement would involve cotton growing to ginning, spinning,
textile manufacture and garment in Katsina, Kano, Abia and Lagos States. “Their
investments will comprise aggregation and off take of cotton from farmers for
ginning, spinning and weaving and manufacturing at least 300 million metres of
African print, which will meet 20 per cent of West Africa’s demand.
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