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Stallion Popular Farms and Mills Limited, a division of the Stallion Group – owners of Stallion Motors, has received an outstanding award in the agricultural sector as it was honored with the Inside Business Commendation Award (IBCA) – Outstanding Projects and Business Leaders of the Year Award at a ceremony held recently in Abuja.
The award was conferred on the company,which began farming activities in Nigeria 10 years ago. for its remarkable role in integrated rice value chain and enhanced local rice production.
IBCA – Outstanding Projects and Business Leaders of the Year Award is an initiative of Inside Business Magazine and was instituted in recognition of remarkable contributions to economic growth and sustainable development.
Former Nigeria Economic Summit Chairman and Chief Executive Inside Business Magazine, Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa, who presented the award to the company applauded Popular Farms and Mills for displaying demonstrative commitment towards Federal Government’s concerted agenda in rice production.
“You have not only supported the country’s agrarian objective for self-sufficiency in rice production but also worked tirelessly with local governments to ensure food security,” he said at the ceremony.
Reacting to the award, the Group Director, Hapreet Singh, said: “We owe this accomplishment to President Muhammadu Buhari’s leadership aptitudes and agri-business agenda as well as Chief Audu Ogbeh’s agrarian backward integration initiative.” He assured that the company would increase its annual output of locally-farmed rice from 450, 000 metric tonnes to 1.5million tonnes annually, using integrated rice value chain and enhanced milling activities.
According to Singh, “Popular Farms and Mills Limited would leverage on the impulse provided by the Federal Government through its transformation agenda to increase local rice production to 1.5million tonnes from 430, 000 metric tonnes annually.”
He also expressed gratitude to IBCA for creating a platform to acknowledge real positive change makers in the agricultural sector, where Popular Farms and Mills was distinguished as outstanding projects and business leaders of the year.
Popular Farms and Mills Limited which produces premium varieties of rice from locally farmed paddy, which are branded as Royal Stallion Shinkafa, Tomato Aroso and Super Champion, has integrated agricultural operations such as world-class rice mills at strategic locations to promote milling and paddy cultivation to make Nigeria self-sufficient in rice production.
Singh said the company’s vision was to preserve and enhance rice production in Nigeria by ensuring genetic integrity of seeds, encourage scientific agricultural practices and promote world-class processing techniques to emerge as industry benchmark for product quality.
With established collection centres across rice producing states in Adamawa, Taraba, Benue, Niger, Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi,Popular Farms and Mills Limited not only helps farmers embrace modern farming techniques but also focuses on distributing farm inputs through farmers cooperatives and associations to ensure rice revolution in Nigeria.
