Bago said this during the signing of the MoU by the Niger Foods and Uttam Sucrotech International Ltd., a consortium of Brazilian and Indian sugar value chain experts, on Nov. 20 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He said the deal was targeted at developing 250,000 hectares of sugarcane field and six sugar/ethanol plants in Niger over the next three years. The governor said the deal was in pursuit of the Green Economy initiative of his administration, which was anchored on food security and industrialisation, through large scale agriculture.