Jobs or just lights? Nigeria toils to power up its solar promise
RICE farmer Danjuma Okuwa knows what he needs to do to boost his profits: use a machine to remove the husk from his grain and then sell it directly to buyers at the local market, instead of supplying his unmilled harvest to a global agribusiness nearby. A 50-kilowatt solar minigrid system, installed in his rural community of Rukubi in Nigeria's central Nasarawa state a year ago, now makes that possible at an affordable cost. Rice farmer Danjuma Okuwa stands next to bags of harvested paddy rice at his compound in Rukubi, Nasarawa, Nigeria, September 27, 2022. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Afolabi Sotunde…
