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Olugbemi. Adeyinka Ogunleye
4 weeks ago
Overview
10 Ways SAPZ Will Make Kaduna Africas Agro-Industrial Powerhouse
Governor Uba Sani’s leadership in Kaduna State is blazing new trails once again — this time through the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) project. Designed to reposition agriculture from subsistence to prosperity, SAPZ is not just a project; it’s a full-blown economic boom. By targeting value addition, industrial development, and massive job creation, SAPZ is set to drive Kaduna’s economic growth for decades. Here are ten (10) ways I believe the excitement is real — and why history will remember Uba Sani as the governor who planted seeds of transformation.
The first reason is that farrming has just got smarter. With SAPZ, agriculture in Kaduna is moving from hoe and cutlass to high-tech equipment, drastically boosting farm yields and efficiency — similar to Rwanda’s shift to mechanized farming under its Crop Intensification Programme.
The second reason is that farmers will become millionaires. How?
Value addition through agro-processing means more earnings for farmers, just like Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa farmers who climbed the income ladder after the country invested heavily in local cocoa processing plants.
The third reason is that of investment rush. This means
the SAPZ will be attracting a wave of investors, as seen in Ethiopia’s agro-industrial parks that pulled in major foreign direct investment (FDI) into rural regions.
The fourth reason, in my candid view, is that there will be a corresponding infrastructure explosion. By this, I mean massive investment in roads, storage facilities, and plants will transform Kaduna, just as Senegal’s Diamniadio Industrial Park spurred infrastructure expansion around Dakar.
