Rural development has been the preoccupation of many developing countries for a long time because the overwhelming majority of the people in these countries, live and find their livelihood in the rural areas. Also, a large proportion of the national income is derived from rural areas as a result of direct economic activities of the rural populace.

 In Nigeria, prior to the advent of oil as the major income source, primary product played very important role as economic bedrock of the nation. In the realization of the above facts, various Nigerians governments adopted different development strategies in order to bring transformation to the rural areas. One of such strategies adopted was the establishment of River basin and Rural development Authorities. The lower and upper Benue River basins and Rural development Authorities, just like other River basin in the nation were established by the Federal Government of Nigeria to bring development to their host communities through the employment opportunities, augmenting income of rural dwellers and provision of social amenities.

 The Organization thus embarked on programs and projects to boost agricultural production through mechanization and the development of water resources potentials of the nation. These function entailed direct agricultural production, construction of dams, dykes, polders drilling of boreholes for portable water supply and construction of rural roads, bridges and so to link project sites.

 Rural development involves effecting improvements in living standards of farmers and rural populace in general. It constitutes a process of planned change for which the one approach or the other is adopted for improvement and/or transformation of the lot of the rural populace. This is the true main reason why Shen Food Packaging was set up.

 Our operational base is in Shendam, a village in Plateau State at the outskirts of Jos. This location of our industry was to help empower the farmers within that region by buying their farm produce which serves as raw materials to us. They have had to expand their farms to be able to supply our needs and these have been made possible by our investment in their business activities. We have also been be able to provide employment opportunities for the region’s populace to work in our factory.

Our rice mill in Shendam has kicked off operations since 2018 and has all the facilities in place to run effectively. We have staff strength of 30 and three offsite sales point located in JoS, Abuja, Lagos.