MAKURDI, Nigeria, June 29, 2026 - The Benue State Government has achieved a monumental milestone in its industrialization and agricultural value-chain agendas following the formal commissioning of the Bensono Fruit Processing and Concentrate Factory. Unveiled by the Chief of Staff to the President on behalf of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the advanced plant marks the successful restoration of a long-abandoned asset.
The strategic industrial facility lay completely dormant and neglected for over thirteen years, forcing local horticultural smallholders to lose tonnes of citrus crops annually to preservation lapses. In a rapid eighteen-month execution window, the administration of Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia fully retrofitted, equipped, and transformed the complex into one of West Africa's most advanced agro-processing plants.
Governor Alia confirmed that launching high-capacity domestic factories is an absolute prerequisite for driving wealth creation and insulating local farmers from post-harvest distribution bottlenecks. The complex will generate over five hundred direct technical jobs, support thousands of farming families, and significantly reduce the federation's dependence on imported fruit concentrate mixes.
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