We Employ 3,000 Workers In Kebbi – Rice Mills

Alhaji Abdullahi Zuru, the General Manager of privately owned Labana Rice Mills Ltd. in Kebbi State, has disclosed that the company employs 3,000 workers. He said the company established five years ago had two mills to process rice obtained from local farmers who had been assisted to produce the required quantity by the company.

Zuru said the two rice mills had the capacity to process 16 tonnes of rice per hour.

“Labana Rice mills encourages self – sufficiency in high quality rice produced by local farmers. Our Labana premium and Labana parboiled products are of high quality and affordable.

“The company will sustain farmers with inputs in the outgrowers scheme within and outside the state, ” he said.

He added that the company would expand the scope of production and employment, improve capacity building of staff, as well as support farmers increased productivity. The company would also employ additional workers as it and therefore tasked youths to embrace rice cultivation as the commodity would be purchased by the company to encourage self- reliance.