Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola will tomorrow commissioned Candel Company Limited's integrated manufacturing facility for crop protection chemicals and foliar fertilizers at the Lekki Free Zone, Lagos. Candel Company Limited, which is an agricultural inputs development and distribution company, said that the multi-billion naira project, which is in its first phase, when completed will deliver a facility with capacity for 80 million litres of formulated products per annum.
It will enable Candel to deliver solutions most suited to Nigeria's tropical climate and peculiar farming systems. There is currently no local production of crop protection agrochemicals in Nigeria with over $400 million in foreign exchange expended annually to import them.
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