Whose to be blamed for Unemployment?
During campaigns they seems to sound confident and know the right things to do and say !
Refineries are been built by our politicians out side the country on the daily
Our textile industries are not working anymore
Agriculture is on the decline

For now it seems its only the minister of Agriculture that's really working,but for policies and agendas to work in a country like Nigeria we need proper project planning!!!
The minister of Agriculture says he would stop the importation of rice into Nigeria in 2015
That's the reason rice is very expensive today( to discourage the producers from Thailand and malaysia) and Nigerians to purchase the locally made rice
Its a very good idea since we would have to produce our rice ourselves and get nigerians employed

But abeg help me ask Mr. Minister, if he really want to do this, ask Dr Akinwunmi Adesina if he has started producing rice that would be enough to feed about 170million nigerians? Has he put machinery in place to take care of that!!
Just one state in the north cannot produce all the rice the entire country will consume
Stop deceiving us and get us engaged in production

When china did this years back, 10 million people died of starvation, can't we learn from that?
Ban of rice is good but let's start producing, we need to see the farms- who are the farmers? Or has it been given as a contract again to some of our big men to make money off us? This is a national project won't graduates be needed to man various offices and sections?
Rice is our only food, Nigerian children can't do without it
We love the initiative
Let's start producing what need to eat in 2015 now
Minister of Agriculture
Save our souls-
Don't politicise the initiative! Its time to start asking our ministers and public office holders questions
you were invited from abroad to do this and if you don't like you have promised......
You are just trying to wake up the sleeping giant in Nigerian unemployed graduates and youths!!
When your children see this let them show it to you
Ehis Abuya

The same goes with this car importation issue!

OP what point are u driving at? dat rice importation should not be ban in 2015 dat is still 2 yrs away.
Don't get me wrong, one way govt can encourage local production of rice is to ban importation.

@realdeals...
You are indeed very correct but have U read the post well?
If U have U would definately see where I asked "what machinery has he/has been put in place so that the rice we produce locally would be sufficient for 150 million Nigerians"!!
China did exeactly this without proper planning and the result was disastrous!!
Its a good idea, a fabulous initiative if it won't be politicized and the minister himself start selling rice in 2015
Who Are the farmers in charge now, have they employed gradutes to participate in the process or is the rice issue like that of PHCN that would be privatised?
We the Nigerian association of unemployed graduates want to know is doing what, when and how, what machinery are we putting in place to ensure by 2015 we have food to eat because rice is "the only food we have in Nigeria", its the only food our children know!!!
This is an initiative that should have employed over a million Nigerians now if something like this must happen in Nigeria
Why are we not hearing anything?
Thanks

I agree wit ban of rice importation

Some people just write stuff for the sake of writing!!

Am not defending govt, but i must admit the present minister of agric is trying, u see one major challenge to agric is not production but value addition & marketing. I spoke wit some group of paddy rice farmers in niger state they lamented d lack of market for their produce, dat in 2009 a local based company came to their rescue by buying the stock at an unfavorable price, cos they also lamented nigerians attitude to anytin local. The fact is we are afraid of change in taste.
You are in d south dat is why it appear as if nothing is happening, d fact is we southerns are not aggressive to farming we always want the govt to push us to farming. People in d north don't do so, they have no alternative to farming despite their poor soil, they toil to get basic farm input like fertilizer. The govt knew dis, dat's why it appear the GES is not working in the south.

Brb

PapaBrowne: Some people just write stuff for the sake of writing!!

While people like u notice, comment and could act!

PapaBrowne: Some people just write stuff for the sake of writing!!

Endorsed

The rate at which every household in Nigeria consume rice is very high, use it for almost all social functions and its of great socio economic impotance in a country like Nigeria.
If truely the minister wants to ban importation of rice we should by now have billions of stores of rice in Megatones everywhere in Nigeria..

The question we need to ask ourselves is why does govt have to ban anything before we are able to produce.

Why must our products, produced locally be unable to compete with products from other countries.

I support free trade among nations, there is no need banning importation of rice, we should compete squarely and stop forcing Nigerians to buy poorly produced goods at a higher price than imported goods.