The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) is a government agency operating under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment in Nigeria.
[2] The NSDC's establishment aimed to rectify the lack of coordinated planning and supervision within Nigeria's sugar sub-sector.
[3] Before its formation, the country struggled to achieve adequate local sugar production, leading to over-reliance on imports, foreign exchange drainage, unemployment, and food insecurity.
The Board, composed of representatives from government and private sector stakeholders, formulates policies for NSDC's operations.
[11] Challenges encountered by NSDC in achieving sugar self-sufficiency encompass inadequate funding, security issues in project locations,[6] low awareness of locally produced sugar, high production costs, competition from substandard products, environmental factors affecting cultivation, policy inconsistency, and insufficient political will to execute the NSMP.