why cant our leaders think with thier heads,
federal govt is about to import 80BILLION Yes! 80billion naira or is it dollars worth of rice
from thailand who are already having difficulty providing enough to feed thier own country
considering the fact that they and india are the largest exporters of rice.

we have huge acres and acres of land in nigeria especially in the north why cant banks and federal govt
emabark on mechanised farming to feed this country and even export some.

Re: Scarcity Of Food,rising Cost Of Rice, Is Nigeria Going Into Famine?

yes!!

how sad it wont hurt to invest half of that money in agriculture , and encourage
farmers to emabark on mechanised farming instead of subsistent farming ,
that way food will never be nigeria's problem.

Not surprised - Nigeria is the only country that thrives on importing what can easily be produced at home (think refined petroleum products, palm produce, ).

@iice, i dey kampe, just went into temporary retirement with OBJ. . Nice to know some of you kept things going (although reading through some of the posts, some things never change).

Nigeria's problems are so plentiful and there are no concrete steps taken to solve them. Just recently I hear there have been countrywide power blackouts and yet so much was spent on trying to solve this problem.


Anyone know how to get Ghanaian citizenship? I don tire.

Its not the amount of land we have, its whether we have the kind of soil conditions required to grow rice.
If it were a matter of just land then the US and Europe would long have been the largest producers of rice.

Sad and shameful. Meanwhile Yaradua is more interested in how Bri'ish Airways maltreats Nigerians and how he can raise tariffs on electricity that we don't have.

David, are you saying we don't grow rice in Nigeria?

We grow rice in the Bendel area (ofada rice) but they are certainly of poorer quality compared to the Asian rice.

4 Him:

We grow rice in the Bendel area (ofada rice) but they are certainly of poorer quality compared to the Asian rice.

How? san-san dey the rice? Once you acquire a taste for foreign goods (e.g rice), nothing local will ever seem good again.

I remember the joy of 'local' rice and 'fowl' , long before Uncle Ben's and agric chicken became a staple.

These Asian tigers have grown, by continuously improving on their local products, not through importation. We should borrow a leaf from them and look inwards.

So its really true, a bag of rice 15,000

it dosnt seem to have afected the ration we still get in school sha

And these people are planning on getting Ofada rice for the Dinner, hmm

iice:

Sometimes sef, you get tired of the taste of all these imported stuffs and just want your[b] local food[/b]

" ' oh really?

Gamine:

So its really true, a bag of rice 15,000

it dosnt seem to have afected the ration we still get in school sha

And these people are planning on getting Ofada rice for the Dinner, hmm

How bad can this ofada rice be? E don kill person before?

PS - @ika how u dey?

Ugwumba:

How bad can this ofada rice be? E don kill person before?

PS - @ika how u dey?

used to Love ofada when i was back home in the west


chai! half stones boulders and half rice

_{oga ugwumba welcome back from your cyber-sleep i dey kampe}

People actually like that Ofada rice alot ooo

They gbadun the thing wellu wellu

Me, i dont like it theres something not right

Ok, i now see the effects of this increase

As the price increases, the grain decreases

i bought N100 plate of rice today and i could count the grains

the meat was smaller than a maggi cube

Chai what is happening in this country!!!!!

a bag of rice is about #15,000.nigeria is going down everyday

apart from the global reasons for rice,the nigerian situation is as a result of selfish and wicked leadership,considering we know states that have the potentials to grow enough rice for nigeria like ebonyi,adamawa,and a few others and also a functioning modern rice processing machine from beginning to the last stage is about 300 million,also rice growing and harvesting takes only a couple of months,they are importing rice so they can get their cuts and also supply a bit and divert the rest to private rice sellers for a profit.
the funny thing about the health hazards of imported rice is that,the rice we get in nigeria is at least 2/3 years in storage and we have about 50 smthn varieties of rice which is better than the imported rice if properly processed,at least i appreciate ofada rice than the imported ones and so do other people in nigeria, thnk GOD the senate dont agree with the 80 billion rice thing and the fed government has released 10 bilion to farmers to sort out the problem