The Nigerian Sugar Institute (NSI) is setting up reforms, which according to the Executive Secretary and Director General of the Council National Sugar Development Agency (NSDC), Mr. Kamar Bakrin, aimed to eliminate the country's sugar production deficit.

The Executive Secretary and CEO of the NSDC said that the Nigerian Sugar Institute was designed as a platform shared across the industry, intended to bring together research, the development of human resources and technical support within a single national center. According to him, “its objective is to guarantee access constant to quality plants, to a qualified workforce and to a credible technical expertise for the sector, thus strengthening sugar production local and filling existing gaps.”

According to him, the Institute acts as an institution research and capacity building center for industry sugar factory, operating under the strategic supervision of the NSDC.

According to Bakrin, “the Nigerian Sugar Institute is a national institution created for this purpose to serve as a pillar of the research, training and technical expertise in the sugar industry Nigerian”.