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oluwdashmi
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What about the Ofada rice and one other rice in Ekiti? Why can't the Govt invest in the production of rice? I sorry for those people living in the "rock". That was a good talk. Our rice has a better aroma  and sweeter taste.
The Nigerian government should wake towards agriculture.
Enough of all the money they claim to spend without results. These days, one is afraid of eating rice because of the cost. |
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bluehorizo (m)
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Ofada rice is not cheaper than the imported variety. Ate the rice at a party recently and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Got to the market with spouse to stock up on food items and we made enquiries abou the rice was told that ofada is N200 for a derica cup while the imported ones range between N150 and N200 depending on the brand.
I agree with you. Most fast food joints sell ofada rice and costlier than the other so called imported rice. You can walk into any eatery closer to you and request for Ofada rice. |
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dee02 (m)
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Everyone is shouting OFADA rice What about ABAKALIKI rice?  Na by force to chop rice sef ehn? |
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yewa-man (m)
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We are still joking, because we still have options fo other types of rice,
the government iis goping to spend billions on importation of rice, in stead
of investing these money in improving the qaulity of Ofoda or Abakaliki.
God help us
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ALERT-EFCC (f)
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RICE KOR CONDOLEEZA NI, if rice too cost try garri or cassava klafes abi flakes.
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SENATOR JD (m)
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abi o, if u no chop rice u sha no go die abi?doe for like a country like Nigeria withput rice a lot of folks fit pai ooo. but ekiti govt has said them get enugh to feed the country in 5mnhts abi na another thing i be read?
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infonet (m)
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From Nov 2007 till April 2008, the increase in the cost of rice is 100%. This has indirectly increase other food items. When will this end? And what was the cause?
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Uche2nna (m)
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Have anyone even stepped back and asked what is the difference between Ofada/ Abakaliki rice and the imported rice ? Is it Variety (i.e species) or is it processing or even both? If we have the climate to cultivate "low quality rice" why can't we cultivate the ones of higher quality?  Why are always our own worst enemy? I don't care where my rice comes from. It could be from my backyard as far as I don't have to pick out stones before cooking or during eating. As long as I have some tasty and spicy beef stew to go with it ,I am good. Call it Abakaliki , call it Ofada, Just clean it up and take out the stones; that singularly would increase the demand. |
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holami1 (m)
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well,i think @ this point its not about rice cost,but to pray for the Nation,developing with good Leaders. my part is Gods mercy on us. |
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oldie (m)
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Problem with some of the commentaries here is that the commentators do not even understand what the problem is.
The locally produced rice (ofada rice) is more expensive than the imported rice/kg
In the interim though, I think the government should give tax relief to rice importers.
Does rice have a local equivalent?
If it does, why not emphasise on the local subtitute?
The long-term solution would be for the government to encourage the local producers and millers in terms of loans and providing power supply, good roads and security
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Uche2nna (m)
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Problem with some of the commentaries here is that the commentators do not even understand what the problem is.
The locally produced rice (ofada rice) is more expensive than the imported rice/kgIn the interim though, I think the government should give tax relief to rice importers.
Does rice have a local equivalent?
If it does, why not emphasise on the local subtitute?
The long-term solution would be for the government to encourage the local producers and millers in terms of loans and providing power supply, good roads and security
I am really not aware of that. But why would something that is supposed to be of poor quality be more expensive? Is it because of production cost? |
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sheniqua
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Have anyone even stepped back and asked what is the difference between Ofada/ Abakaliki rice and the imported rice ? Is it Variety (i.e species) or is it processing or even both? If we have the climate to cultivate "low quality rice" why can't we cultivate the ones of higher quality? Why are always our own worst enemy? I don't care where my rice comes from. It could be from my backyard as far as I don't have to pick out stones before cooking or during eating. As long as I have some tasty and spicy beef stew to go with it ,I am good. Call it Abakaliki , call it Ofada, Just clean it up and take out the stones; that singularly would increase the demand. Uche you hit the nail on the head gbowai when I think abakaliki rice, I go back 2 plus decades and visualize my grandmother (may her soul rest in perfect peace) in the village with a tray blowing off chaff and picking out rocks from a few cups of rice she's supposed to cook for dinner. I don't know if the quality has improved now but it needs to. |
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wedu01 (m)
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Why making hay when the sun is shining. Lazy people are grown hot on high cost of Rice and Bread. Our father fabricated cutlass and hoe, for farming. We now, what have we fabricate, to feed ourself is a problem. Our fathers are feeding us, but we can't provide a staple food for children
With the grand education we have had, what is delaying this program of feeding the nations. Farmers are being treated like a shit, but they produced strength and energy for life.
Let continue to eat books and these grammar of ours. Until we all die of hunger. We have to learn from mistakes other nations and gain experiences from others too. We have lands but uncultivated, we have knowledge but untaped
we have people but unserviceable. Let fabricate what we need to feed our people. An hungry man is an angry man, no foods no life.
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Uche2nna (m)
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Why making hay when the sun is shining. Lazy people are grown hot on high cost of Rice and Bread. Our father fabricated cutlass and hoe, for farming. We now, what have we fabricate, to feed ourself is a problem. Our fathers are feeding us, but we can't provide a staple food for children
With the grand education we have had, what is delaying this program of feeding the nations. Farmers are being treated like a shit, but they produced strength and energy for life.
Let continue to eat books and these grammar of ours. Until we all die of hunger. We have to learn from mistakes other nations and gain experiences from others too. We have lands but uncultivated, we have knowledge but untaped
we have people but unserviceable. Let fabricate what we need to feed our people. An hungry man is an angry man, no foods no life.
And after all the dogon turanchi, the status quo remains the same. Thats what bogs me  |
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redsun (m)
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Rise on your feet,it's going to get worse,the world dependent resources are running out,more lack,more famine,more invasions and more wars.
Nature is ravaging,loose connection is taking its toll,man got to rethink,but upon all this all this cry for rise in food prices,england still announced food waste of ten billion pounds yesterday,150 million pounds was wasted on just bread last year,but the price crunch is creeping up here too,a 15 pounds rise in an average household weekly shopping in a period of six months is something to be taken seriously.
Only the strong will survive to the end.Grow rice,if you have to.
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Dis Guy
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Considering I am from the same Nigeria, I do not believe for one minute that the money is locked with the government. When we have thousands of local investors in the same country and many people looking for what to invest their money into. We have millions of Nigerians outside of Nigerians with money to invest. I believe the problem remains that instead of exploring other possible ideas, we continue to hope too much in a government and system that continues to fail us. It is ! Senator Ahmed Sani Yarima, the immediate past governor of Zamfara State is also a farmer. In this interview with Daily Trust, Yarima said the over 150,000 chicken in his poultry farm produce about 2,000 crates of eggs daily that fetch him over [i]N500,000 a day theres money to be made in agricultureNot the best example but i hope you get the point problem is there are too many people looking for overnight profit, just check the business section |
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redsun (m)
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The fact remains that nigerian rice in its almost crude form is healthier that the imported polished rice,those things are cosmetics,all the nutrients have been washed away several times.except for the likes of uncle ben's whole grain rice,but an average nigerian can't afford that,even here in england,it is a cut throat price,you have to know what food is all about for you to want to buy it.
But for stones and chafes in nigerian rice,it is better than imported.All rice in its original form is brown,complete with natural nutrients,but when it is process it turns white,with all the nutrients gone.
Like the nigerian brown beans they sell here,always full of weevils,little insects,i wonder what can be done to get rid of them,or it could be source of added protein.Too much insecticides on the other hand could be more horrible
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Kobojunkie
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It is ! Senator Ahmed Sani Yarima, the immediate past governor of Zamfara State is also a farmer. In this interview with Daily Trust, Yarima said the over 150,000 chicken in his poultry farm produce about 2,000 crates of eggs daily that fetch him over [i]N500,000 a day theres money to be made in agricultureNot the best example but i hope you get the point problem is there are too many people looking for overnight profit, just check the business sectionExactly, That is the first statement I believe you have made that comes close to the problem in that country. The money is in the hands of the people but we have more people who are more willing to invest in high risk stocks with promises of possibility of high return in short time as opposed to investing in farms and businesses that have potentially lower risk and returns are actually higher over time. This is the case with rice in that country, the price of local rice has gone up, not cause demand has gone low or ever was low but cause these sellers now have a better opportunity to get max profits. Like many have pointed out so far, when it comes to quality, not everyone has quality first on their minds. Even I do not necessarily think quality first. I usually think price first, then quality later when it comes to rice. I can almost swear the rice I bought from the store just last night is of the okada family. It sucks water like crazy but it tastes good, so I am definitely keeping it. |
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delegiwa (m)
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Uche you hit the nail on the head gbowai
when I think abakaliki rice, I go back 2 plus decades and visualize my grandmother (may her soul rest in perfect peace) in the village with a tray blowing off chaff and picking out rocks from a few cups of rice she's supposed to cook for dinner.
I don't know if the quality has improved now but it needs to.
Shenqua my dear, that was 2 decades ago. Nigerian rice has passed that stage far back. In fact you can go to the market and and ask for Abakaliki "Stone-free" rice and you get it kia kia. I think the problem with the high price of locally produced rice is that the quantity produced is usually small and the farmers try to recoup their expenses by hiking the price. However, the high price of my beloved OFADA is solely caused by the recent craze by fast food joints for Ofada Rice on their menu and the demand by people like me. You won't believe it but majority of Ofada Rice farmers have collected money for next year's harvest from these Fast Food coys upfront so the little ones you see in the market is just a way of the farmers making and "aside" money. Let the truth be told, if these local farmers are encouraged, our demand for foreign rice may not totally be non-existent but will be reduced drastically becuase I'm sure there are people like me who like Abakalike and Ofada rice like die. |
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Uche2nna (m)
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We might eventually find ourselves in the net of Malthus predictions. But right now that is not the problem besieging Nigeria. Nigeria is not suffering because of a high population and little resources. Nigeria is suffering because of a neglect/wastage of natural resources. |
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Uche2nna (m)
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Shenqua my dear, that was 2 decades ago. Nigerian rice has passed that stage far back. In fact you can go to the market and and ask for Abakaliki "Stone-free" rice and you get it kia kia.
I think the problem with the high price of locally produced rice is that the quantity produced is usually small and the farmers try to recoup their expenses by hiking the price.
However, the high price of my beloved OFADA is solely caused by the recent craze by fast food joints for Ofada Rice on their menu and the demand by people like me. You won't believe it but majority of Ofada Rice farmers have collected money for next year's harvest from these Fast Food coys upfront so the little ones you see in the market is just a way of the farmers making and "aside" money.
Let the truth be told, if these local farmers are encouraged, our demand for foreign rice may not totally be non-existent but will be reduced drastically becuase I'm sure there are people like me who like Abakalike and Ofada rice like die.
You can get Ofada rice that is lacking stones but the extra labour expended in making it stone free would make the rice more expensive than it should be. And that is a limiting factor right there. If removal of stones was made less labor intensive than it is now, then the prices would not be that high up. Also, I agree that the quantity is nothing to write home about and that is where I always think that the government can and should come in. I know Kobo would not like this But the farmers can only do so much given the resources and the amenities at their disposal. |
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Kobojunkie
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You can get Ofada rice that is lacking stones but the extra labour expended in making it stone free would make the rice more expensive than it should be. And that is a limiting factor right there. If removal of stones was made less labor intensive than it is now, then the prices would not be that high up. Also, I agree that the quantity is nothing to write home about and that is where I always think that the government can and should come in. I know Kobo would not like this But the farmers can only do so much given the resources and the amenities at their disposal. Here is something for you to ponder. If quantity has not changed much in the last 20 years or so. Are you really sure it is Quantity that is SUDDENLY the problem now?? I mean that is sort of like telling you that NITEL only became in effective this year when the problem has existed for almost 20 years now. Let me give you an example here in the USA. Rice is abundant and available. Yes, there is scarcity in the rest of the world but the US has stored up grains,enough for the people but the price of rice has gone up a bit. Do you think jumping to claim increased demand is the problem or supply reduction is the issue when there is no evidence of that ?? I believe the problem here is that we somehow accept RECYCLED EXCUSES played back to us over and over without realizing that it is not supposed to be that way. Low production of rice in that country is not a new thing at all. It has been an issue for about 20 years now. Why is it suddenly ok again to blame the 20 year old problem for the rise in food cost when supply has not changed much, neither has demand?? |
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wedu01 (m)
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Do we all remember Operation feed the nation by Former president Olusegun Obasanjo, and the Green revolution of our dear President Sheu Shagari. What has these brought to us? Nothing, but now population are grown higher everyday and no staple food to eat on our table. The solution to me now is to urge all our Former and past leaders head of States, Head of service, Service Chiefs and Directors to contribute, Big Capital for mechanisation and Agriculture Science, for would be interesting Farmers. to boost them and things will augur well for this nations of ours.
Establishment of school of Mechanical farming and fabricated of tools for uses and bravo Nigerian will be exporting foods and other resources. The young and old Farmers are desperate on farming but no money, no collateral's, to use to get huge loan from bank, but they have hope. energy and power to work.
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Ndipe (m)
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How much does it cost to feed a family of five in Nigeria?
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prettyuc
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can't they do something about this
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dee02 (m)
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can't they do something about this
what happened to you? if u wait for "them" to do something in Naija, u go wait till thy kingdom come! the earlier the better for u to start doing something plant garri, beans, apku, tapioca, everything plant! plant!! plant!!! |
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bluehorizo (m)
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How much does it cost to feed a family of five in Nigeria?
It depends on your income. |
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emmydee (m)
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Nigeria has already started importing gari from Togo, and even Ghana! check very well.
You know what? stupid naija administrators approved the exportation of cassava to Europe and they beat their chest about the fake revenue generated in the venture. now where's is the revenue? in winds of course!
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