Keneking:
So what do they want?

- Imported rice is only cheaper than locally produced rice.
- So until you farmers reduce your selling price, until then would the trend reverse
- Look at that poster that reads "no farmer no nation" UP NORTH!!!

that 'NO FARMER, NO NATION' weak me

chngebeginwthme:


You believe in serving your Oyinbo masters? When are we going to the independent on our own product..

You guys want Nigeria to patronize Aba made stuff but don't want to patronize local rice.. Continue..

greed people, join the protest

The world is now a global village and whatever product you produce locally should compare and compete with foreign made ones in cost and quality.

What they should be concerned about is how to make thier rice cheaper and better than imported ones.
Imagine if they produce the same quality of rice like imported ones and it's available and cheaper, who would be stupid to import and run a loss?
Cost and availability remain the key to ending importation naturally. It is the same reason America still import most goods from China.

chngebeginwthme:


You believe in serving your Oyinbo masters? When are we going to the independent on our own product..

You guys want Nigeria to patronize Aba made stuff but don't want to patronize local rice.. Continue..

Don't tribalize everything, Ebonyi also have rice, likewise other states. You don't just wake up and stop importation when the nation cannot produce half of what it needs.

Keneking:
So what do they want?

- Imported rice is only cheaper than locally produced rice.
- So until you farmers reduce your selling price, until then would the trend reverse
- Look at that poster that reads "no farmer no nation" UP NORTH!!!

The more we demand for it the more it get cheaper..

Kondomatic:
Don't tribalize everything, Ebonyi also have rice, likewise other states. You don't just wake up and stop importation when the nation cannot produce half of what it needs.

And you think they will protest if they don't have rice in stock?

chngebeginwthme:



And you think they will protest if they don't have rice in stock?

For how many people?

hoodedjaystrim:
All These Illiterate Protesters Of The North

Am Sure Most Of Them Don't Knw Why It Was Banned

You see the problems of this country are not from our leaders,persons like u that are been blinded by hatred and tribalism are our real problem. What do u stand to gain with ur insatiable desire to abuse almost anything that came from the north no matter how good it is? Get well soon bro!!

The Handwriting tho

hoodedjaystrim:
All These Illiterate Protesters Of The North

Am Sure Most Of Them Don't Knw Why It Was Banned

Illiterates who know how to write and display such placards? Worms have eaten ur brain sir. Baka da wayo.

Very kind-full! I wish their plight is sorted out

Hectarus:
This did not happen today if the past leaders had done a quarter of what has been done in the last 6years about rice there would be no problem about rice. Every policy is not without its teething stages. It would be a grave mistake if government starts importation of rice now.

well, 99% of Nigerians don't know that. They believe a country can be destroyed over a fifty year period and be fixed in one day.

Kondomatic:
For how many people?

So Thailand started feeding the whole African same year they started rice farming? Well reason politician take us for ride, They know an average man problem is food reason reason Fayose is giving Ekiti people one derica of rice and 200 every month..

they are right, untill Nigeria stop importation of things we can produce, our GDP would not grow. We can produce Rice in Nigeria, it should not be imported. It will enrich the farmers, the prices of their produce would go up. Farmers are enjoying this administration.

360frolic:
Early this morning, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, Bauchi State chapter took a march to government house seeking the stoppage of rice importation. Gov M.A. Abubakar stopped his convoy to listen to the farmers and he received them personally.


http://www.newshelmng.com/2017/06/photos-gov-abubakar-stops-his-convoy-to.html

I thought buharis people said this govt has succeeded in flooding Nigeria with local rice?what are these guys protesting 4?

Idaikwo2017:
they are right, untill Nigeria stop importation of things we can produce, our GDP would not grow. We can produce Rice in Nigeria, it should not be imported. It will enrich the farmers, the prices of their produce would go up. Farmers are enjoying this administration.

if farmers are enjoying this administration y are they protesting?

If rice importation commences
price of all food commodities will
come down by force.

Govt has begged farmers & traders
to reduce food prices & they have stubbornly
refused, this is how to deal with them.

What has price of dollar have to do with
increase in Palm oil, whose tree was planted
since Shagari & Babangida régime?

Why is garri more expensive than cornflakes &
palm at one time more expensive than olive oil?

High cost of food is not progress,
it shows inefficient agricultural systems.