Floods washed away at least two million tons of rice in Nigeria, the second-largest importer of the grain. That is more than 25% of the previously projected national output of 8 million tons, according to estimates by a farmers’ organization.

At least 450,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) were destroyed in Kebbi, the country’s main rice-growing state, according to Mohammed Sahabi, the state chairman of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria. Planters had targeted a 2.5 million ton contribution to the national basket, but will now meet less than 20% of the target. Farmers in five other states -- Kano, Nigeria, Enugu, Jigawa and Nasarawa -- also reported damage.

“Although we heard the forecast of flooding this year, we didn’t expect that the damage will be of this magnitude,” Sahabi said by phone from the northwestern city of Birnin Kebbi. “Our target at state level was 2.5 million tons this year, but now we are looking at only 500,000 tons of harvest.”

Nearly 50 people died in Nigerian floods this year as torrential rains caused Africa’s most populous country’s two main rivers to overflow, according to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The agency had warned that at least 28 of 36 states of West African nation were at risk of flooding due to heavy rainfall. Other crops such as sorghum, millet and corn were also affected.

“There is this trepidation that we might have food problems on flooding and existing insecurity challenges,” Kabir Ibrahim, head of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria said by phone from Abuja, the nation’s capital. “It will be too soon to know how devastating the impact is.”

Nigeria’s rice production was about 6.7 million tons in the last three years, with imports seen declining by 200,000 tons in 2020 from 1.2 million tons last year as price-sensitive consumers switch to local staples, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-09-05/floods-washed-away-more-that-25-of-nigeria-s-rice-harvest

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Lol 2020 is an interesting year, 1/4 of rice production is washed away. These little events along with news of Nigeria importing grain put Nigeria's Argo sufficiency into question. I think its safe to say the agriculturual policies have failed and the government should admit like they did the subsidies.

We shall overcome

Blue3k:
Lol 2020 is an interesting year, 1/4 of rice production is washed away. These little events along with news of Nigeria importing grain put Nigeria's Argo sufficiency into question. I think its safe to say the agriculturual policies have failed and the government should admit like they did the subsidies.

What does natural occurrence has to do with failure?

This government & it's leader are bad luck to our generation.

Vixlot:

What does natural occurrence has to do with failure?

The floods were just the kill shot. They never reached self sufficiency before the floods.

Honestly , i wish to have been born in the 1940's.... I would've lived nd already be dead in the grave by now.
It doesn't seem like this year will get any better infact it jst keeps getting worse.
As if judgement day is jst round the corner! A famine is coming nd god knows we ain't ready.

And Una say make we no chop foreign rice.

The poor should brace up, bag of Rice will be 100k before December. If you have money now, go and buy oooo.

This people don't want to help us.
Go to government House, you will not see local rice. They don't eat local rice there ooo, only the poor do.

FG wants to use floods as a cover for its ungrounded assertion that Nigeria is now self sufficient in rice production leading to closure of the border and ban on rice importation.

The reality is that many of these farmers in the North collected a lot of money from CBN under the Anchor Borrowers Scheme for Rice production and over here in the North many don't like repaying Govt loans as it is seen as share of the national cake for all, it means the farmers can now declare Force Majeure (Act of God beyond human control) and the loans will be classified as 'bad debt'

Another excuse for hike in price of rice before the year ends. It is well.







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Nigeria has long attained self sufficiency in rice production even causing collapse of the Thailand Rice pyramids according to Audu Ogbeh.Now they will hide behind the flooding disaster make excuse for their lies & failure.

Is that why 1 derica of foreign rice 500?

I Thought they banned foreign rice

We can finally see something to blame when flood no dey sef na 23k b local rice shey Flood too affect the price den

Damnnnnn niggarrr
Isoright

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Na so Nigeria things dey always be. Nothing dey always work well for this country. This APC carry too much bad luck come.

That's why we're rejecting them in Edo.

Edo no be Lagos!

Timekeeper:
Is that why 1 derica of foreign rice 500?

I Thought they banned foreign rice

Even the local one is expensive and full of stones . They should give us foreign rice abeg

Susu888:
Honestly , i wish to have been born in the 1940's.... I would've lived nd already be dead in the grave by now.
It doesn't seem like this year will get any better infact it jst keeps getting worse.
As if judgement day is jst round the corner! A famine is coming nd god knows we ain't ready.

Buhari for still rule you in 1980s na, so you will witness the same issue.

....and we complain of no rainfall in the South West

... I just hope tht price of rice doesn't increase.

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Openbusiness:
Even the local one is expensive and full of stones . They should give us foreign rice abeg

Too expensive

Susu888:
Honestly , i wish to have been born in the 1940's.... I would've lived nd already be dead in the grave by now.
It doesn't seem like this year will get any better infact it jst keeps getting worse.
As if judgement day is jst round the corner! A famine is coming nd god knows we ain't ready.

At least the ww2 or Biafran war would have killed and saved you the stress you now find yourself

Vixlot:

What does natural occurrence has to do with failure?

The flooding is NOT a "natural occurrence". Is it not caused by overflowing dams? Dams that people built?

It won't affect the price of polished or local rice anyways

They should better ease the restrictions on rice importation to ease the sufferings on Nigerians. A state of emergency on rice should be declared immediately.

Dis buhari government has blamed everything... Middlemen, Coronavirus, he has called Nigerian youths lazy, he said Nigeria medical doctors are not good enough to treat his family... now weather he won't ease restrictions on rice importation trust me

We should start importing back rice ASAP

4tomandchi:
They should better ease the restrictions on rice importation to ease the sufferings on Nigerians. A state of emergency on rice should be declared immediately.

Exactly