From Mustapha Adamu, Kano
The Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) has on Thursday organized a one-day sensitization workshop for ride millers on standard organization requirements for third-party milling in Kano State.
Speaking at the opening of the programme, The Director-General of the Agency Malam Farouk Salim, reaffirmed its determination to train rice millers in kano to be standard and marketable.
He said the workshop was aimed at training rice millers on standardization and to make their products marketable within and outside the country.
Salim said SON is working towards ensuring that the factories do not lose their products by using false machines while measuring the products and also to protect the customers.
“The whole essence of standardization is making the product acceptable to the market, and make it easier for the producers to produce without having any problem”
He noted that SON would provide technical support and certification to enhance the standardization of products.
Declaring the workshop opened, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, represented by the Commissioner of Works, Alhaji Idris Wada Sale said the sensitization training was very timely, stressing that the agricultural revolution achieved by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is very commendable.
