Nigeria: Special Report - Nigeria s Paper Mills Moribund Yet Options for Reviving Them Abound
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SPECIAL REPORT: Nigeria s paper mills moribund yet options for reviving them abound
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The country’s three paper mills have failed to produce as planned for years, but experts say non-wood raw materials abundant in the country can help revive them.
On Danladi Abubakar’s corn farm, now harvested, lie massive heaps of stalks about to be burnt. The farmland is located at Moniya, a suburb of Ibadan, Oyo State.
This practice of Mr Abubakar’s, like many other farmers’, causes emissions of carbon dioxide, an harmful chemical compound, into the atmosphere, hence contributing to global warming and ultimately, climate change.
But if not burnt, the heaps could follow through a supply chain ending in machines of paper-product manufacturers, who, currently, depend on imported wood-based raw materials, which constrain their productivity and profitability.
Nigeria can now produce silkworm eggs for farmers – FG
Silk farming or sericulture, which is the cultivation of silkworm to produce silk, has since remained an excellent agro-based cottage industry for rural reconstruction and development.
Mr. Ojo Fashakin, an agriculturist, who specilalises in sericulture, noted that silk is an animal protein fibre produced by certain insects to build cocoons and webs.
He explained that the vast majority of the world’s production of silk was from the silk worm, scientifically known as Bombyx mori, which originated from China and that the species of the insect was known to feed exclusively on a plant known as mulberry.