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Sugar firm loses 25,000 mt to flooding

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    The state-owned Nigerian Sugar Company lost 6,000 hectares of sugar cane plantation to floods in the country’s central region, ‘The Guardian’ said on Thursday.

    The company said the lost harvest, expected to have yielded some 25,000 mt of sugar, included part of the 1999/2000 crop as well as new fields cultivated under an expansion programme, the newspaper reported. Some of the heaviest rains in 30 years have been recorded in parts of northern and central Nigeria this year.

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