The Federal Government has, in response to what it views as unsatisfactory general performance of operators in the sugar production sector in recent times, introduced new guidelines as well as put in place benchmarks for raw sugar allocation.
The government was said to be uncomfortable with the report of the mid-term review meeting of the National Sugar Development Council, which indicated that the general performance of operators was below average.
According to a statement by the Executive Secretary of NSDC, Dr. Latif Busari, the government has also realised that past quota allocation to operators has not been strictly based on Backward Integration Programme performance and the incentive has not been effectively utilised in getting operators to improve performance in their BIP implementation.
