Nigerian billionaire Abdulsamad Rabiu is extending BUA Group’s push into meals and agriculture with a brand new feed mill undertaking in Kano State.
BUA has signed an settlement with Türkiye’s Viteral Built-in Milling Programs to assemble a 40-tonnes-per-hour animal feed mill in Kano, based on data shared by the businesses. The plant is anticipated to be accomplished round mid-2027 and can sit within the state’s grain belt, near main livestock markets in northern Nigeria.
The deliberate facility will produce feed for poultry and different livestock, with BUA saying it needs to chop reliance on imported feed and premixes whereas providing extra steady costs to farmers. The corporate additionally tasks new jobs throughout grain aggregation, transport and on-site operations as soon as the mill comes onstream.
Rabiu, founder and govt chairman of BUA Group, has been steadily including to the group’s meals footprint, constructing on current investments in flour, pasta, rice and edible oils underneath BUA Meals. The brand new feed plant matches into that technique by tying upstream grain provide extra on to the fast-growing poultry and livestock phase.
Nigeria’s animal feed market is estimated to be value greater than $2.5 billion and is increasing as demand for meat, eggs and dairy rises. On the similar time, farmers and processors have been squeezed by excessive feed prices, pushed by shortages of corn and soybeans and restrictions on some imports.
By finding the mill in Kano, BUA is betting it may possibly leverage native corn and different uncooked supplies whereas shortening provide chains into key livestock hubs within the north. Trade analysts say that if BUA locks in constant grain provide, the undertaking may assist ease a number of the worth volatility that has hit poultry producers over the previous few years.
The deal additionally extends Rabiu’s sample of partnering with Turkish engineering companies on food-industry capability. BUA Meals has beforehand signed agreements with Turkish tools producers to construct new wheat milling crops, lifting its flour capability and reinforcing the group’s place as certainly one of Nigeria’s largest packaged meals producers.
Rabiu is already recognized for large-ticket tasks in cement and sugar, however the Kano feed mill reveals the place he sees the following stress level: animal protein. By tightening up feed provide within the north, he’s betting that regular, moderately priced rations for farmers will turn out to be as essential to Nigeria’s meals safety story as new flour mills or sugar refineries.
