THE Federal Government has said that
the country loses about N1 billion everyday from
importation of rice, even as it assured that Nigeria
will soon stop importing the grains.
Special Adviser to the President on the New
Partnership for Africa’s Development, NEPAD, and
African Peer Review Mechanism, APRM, Mrs.
Fidelia Akuabata Njeze, disclosed this at a one-day
stakeholders’ forum on the establishment of the
Nigeria/ECOWAS rice sector policy and regulation
advocacy platform, in Abuja.
She added that due to the importation of rice,
Nigeria had been exporting jobs and financial
resources for the transformation of the domestic
rice sector in the country.
Speaking in similar vein, Ministry of Agriculture, Dr.
Akinwunmi Adesina, also assured that “Nigeria is
already at exit door from importation.”
The minister said this when he inspected the 420
hectares of rice farm and mill owned by Olam
Nigeria Limited in Rubuki near Doma, Nasarawa
State.
He said 2.9 million metric tonnes of high quality
milled rice was expected to be produced from the
farm starting from the next farming season.
The minister noted that with the importation of
about two million metric tonnes of rice per annum,
the issue of rice import will soon stop.
“We are going to be the Thailand of Africa in terms
of rice production and export,” Adesina said
The minister also said no fewer than 670 jobs were
created in 2013 through rice production.
He disclosed that 1.9 million metric tonnes of rice
was produced in the 2013 dry and wet seasons
thereby contributing N320 billion to the Gross
Domestic Product, GDP.

So What should we do? We should go and attack thailand abi? You fools should do ur job or get tha fvck out of that place!

K

They keep repeating the same thing!

I keep asking myself,when will nigeria stop.losing huge sum of money to importation.of.our own local commodities.