United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) World Markets and Trade Report‎ has said Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari is importing more rice than during previous administrations.
Recently, Buhari himself made boasted when he said to British Prime Minister, Theresa May on April 16, 2018 as follows:

“We have cut rice importation by about 90%, made lots of savings of foreign exchange, and generated employment. People had rushed to the cities to get oil money, at the expense of farming. But luckily, they are now going back to the farms.

Even professionals are going back to the land. We are making steady progress on the road to food security.”

This claim was also made by the minister of agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, who on May 2, 2018 said as follows:

“Unemployment in Thailand was one of the lowest in the world, 1.2 per cent, it has gone up to four per cent because seven giant rice mills have shut down because Nigeria’s import has fallen by 95 per cent on rice alone”.

On several occasions, the Buhari administration has bragged that their biggest achievement is reducing Nigeria’s dependence on foreign rice.

Putting lies to the Presidential claims, Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation said: “However, recently released data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) World Markets and Trade Report have proven these claims by President Muhammadu Buhari and his government to be false.‎”

It said, “According to the World Markets and Trade Report of the USDA, which is a public document, Nigeria imported three million metric tonnes of rice in 2018, which is 400,000 metric tonnes more than the quantity of the product imported in 2017.

It does not end there.

“The report shows that there has actually been a steep drop in commercial rice production from its 2015 peak under the previous Peoples Democratic Party administration.

According to the report “Nigeria had consistently milled 3,780,000 metric tonnes annually – a drop from 3,941,000 metric tonnes recorded in 2015.”

The Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation therefore wishes to appeal to President Buhari and his government to be truthful to the Nigerian public, rather than claim progress they have not made, because no matter how far and fast falsehood has travelled, it must eventually be overtaken by the truth.

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar will always be honest and transparent with the Nigerian people as he carries all citizens along in his mission to Get Nigeria Working Again.

http://authorityngr.com/2018/11/07/us-nigeria-has-imported-3million-mt-of-rice-in-2018/

Hahahaha.... D truth is like Pregnancy , it cannot stay hidden for too long... When d govt kips making claims of agricultural revolution I jus laugh... I have a friend who abandoned over 7hectares of farmland in Plateau state over incessant attacks by herdsmen who seem to have successfully chased most farmers away from farms.. Farmers in Benue, Kaduna and Zamfara are making d same complaints but yet d govt would rather ignore those issues and sell propaganda to d people

Buh BMC said Agriculture has improved??

atiku is dogged

atiku is resilient

atiku is genuinely detribslised


atiku is genuinely educated and intelligent

atiku isnt a fake integrity monger


i think atiku will do well as our next president!

With all the RICE that we are producing..

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Some of them our govt will reparkage as Nigerian local rice which they're producing in aboundance for 2019 campaign.

This current govt is built on lies

Lai &Ogbeh sud come&tell us anoda set of lies. propaganda can win som ple som of d time bt cant win all d ple all d time

And Buhari wants to campaign with fake agricultural revolution

U.S. don burst another APC propaganda


APC were also caught in the fake rice pyramid scam below.
We have a government and party that thrives on deception and propaganda.

Nigerians are saying...Enough! Our mumu don do!

Ha! APC And Buhari can lie! See how God has exposed them now...

How can there be rice abi agricultural revolution when Bubu's Fulani brothers will not allow farmers farm in peace? He will be saying that we cannot talk of economic stability without security yet he wants to boast of agricultural revolution in the face of same insecurity? How? Yeye dey smell!

slivertongue:
Lai&Audu Ogbeh com &tell us anoda set of lies. propaganda can win som ple som of d tym bt cant decive al d ple al d tym

Are you sending an SMS Why the unnecessary short hand

I like the way Atiku campaign is focusing on empirical facts

I don't blame buhari. He doesn't know jack about what is happening around him. So they tell him anything and he believes without anyform of verification. And Audu Ogbeh is another expired and tired product. How does anyone think the ministry of agriculture will do better under ogbeh than the quintessential adesina? Its a joke.

As far as I can see, anyone voting buhari is committing a crime against the future of this country.

Where are those shouting buhari rice revolution? An investigative journalist should pls visit the cross River rice mill that buhari himself commissioned some months ago. The place is already deserted.

This is Nigeria

chinjo:
Where are those shouting buhari rice revolution? An investigative journalist should pls visit the cross River rice mill that buhari himself commissioned some months ago. The place is already deserted.

Na dia way na! All show without any sense of sustenance or growth.

CHOICE

This is a lie . See the Thailand Rice Exporters Association Website for the true Figures



According to the Thailand Rice Exporters Association website, Rice export to Nigeria fell from 9,907,868 Mt of 2016 to 11628,303 Mt in 2017 alone.
2017
QUANTIY (MT) VALUE
(MILLION BAHT)
23,192 324

http://www.thairiceexporters.or.th/export%20by%20country%202017.html

The source is not credible.
Back it with a more credible one

Minjim:
The source is not credible.

Back it with a more credible one

OK.

Let's start with the markets.

How many local rice is there in the market compared to foreign rice?

Where did Bello of Kogi and Amosun of Ogun get rice to build their pyramids.

Meanwhile the chronically lying Buhari-led APC government have lied about the collapse of the Thailand Rice pyramids due to the rice revolution in Nigeria.

samebony1:
This is a lie . See the Thailand Rice Exporters Association Website for the true Figures



According to the Thailand Rice Exporters Association website, Rice export to Nigeria fell from 9,907,868 Mt of 2016 to 11628,303 Mt in 2017 alone.
2017
QUANTIY (MT) VALUE
(MILLION BAHT)
23,192 324

http://www.thairiceexporters.or.th/export%20by%20country%202017.html

Keep fooling urself... Check d increase in d exports to Benin republic.. I'm sure U don't know dat more than 80% of those are also for Nigerian markets

When I told CliricMarin abi what's his moniker that the biggest rice market in Lagos at Ijora does not have a single bag of locally produced rice for sale, he thought I was lying.

Una don see Buhari and his rice revolution scam?

no mind them available stat proved them wrong even before the US report.... 2014 and 2015 were the highest in history..
see below Production in MT

2012 3423 (1000 MT)
2013 3038 (1000 MT)
2014 3782 (1000 MT)
2015 3941 (1000 MT)
2016 3780 (1000 MT)
2017 3780 (1000 MT)
2018 3 780 (1000 MT)
https://www.indexmundi.com/agriculture/?country=ng&commodity=milled-rice&graph=production

Nbote:


Keep fooling urself... Check d increase in d exports to Benin republic.. I'm sure U don't know dat more than 80% of those are also for Nigerian markets

You are the one who is fooling himself.
The report did not talk about smuggled rice to Nigeria, but rather talked about what IS IMPORTED TO NIGERIA ie WHAT WE SPEND OUR FOREX TO BRING INTO THE COUNTRY.

samebony1:

You are the one who is fooling himself.
The report did not talk about smuggled rice to Nigeria, but rather talked about what IS IMPORTED TO NIGERIA ie WHAT WE SPEND OUR FOREX TO BRING INTO THE COUNTRY.

Oga show me d current stats of rice production in Nigeria and show me d stat as at 2015 and den do same for imports... Go to Sokoto and other northern bothers and see d number of truckloads of rice coming into dis country.. For ur information d govt placed a ban on providing Forex for imports of some commodities including rice so I wonder which of UR FOREX u are talking about...

as an economist, I know that FG and the agric minister have been lying to Nigerians all these years.
you cannot have famers and their families been killed on daily basis and expect bumper harvest.

where is that educated ignorant seunmsg to come debunk this fake truth.