Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, on Saturday, called on the people of Bayelsa State and Nigerians at large to embrace farming and start producing.

Lokpobiri, who made this call in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, said that Nigeria is spending about $22bn every year on food importation.

According to him, “Rice matures in three months. So, this is a wake up call for Bayelsa people to take the four farms we have seriously. The federal government has four farms in the state in our records.

"We know how many more dollars they bought and that is why you see the price of rice going up. “Price of rice was N12,000 some months ago, but it is now about N26,000 and if we don’t start producing, by December it could be N40,000.

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Embrace farming and start producing, with which land kwanu?? Who is going to provide the Lands for farming?