According to Okoroafor, “Out of 6.1 million tons of rice needed to feed Nigerians, Kebbi State farmers alone produced over one million tons.

Okoroafor said the Apex bank is set to increase loans to rice farmers. The farmers in reaction said they are yet to be able to access the funds.

hustla:


Would it be a bad thing if it's sold for 6k for one bag thus making it affordable for even minimum wage earners?

I think not

hustla:


Would it be a bad thing if it's sold for 6k for one bag thus making it affordable for even minimum wage earners?

I think not

Businessideas:

Which one be your oil? Come and collect it na?Oil that's for every Nigerian the same way the north feeds and protect you from starvation.
Nigeria will work and we shall all reap the fullness of her abundance in human and material resources.
If you don't want it for Nigeria, then you need Jesus in your life.

Remii:
if we keep calling N21k when it's N13 or N15k, Nigerians traders has no decorum, some can increase their price thinking they are selling below market prices. True information is for everyone govt shouldn't lie, masses shouldn't too.

Businessideas:
Nigeria is the hope of Africa. We will rise up and build our nation. Just 200 farmers changed the course of history.

Businessideas:
Nigeria to begin exporting rice from Kebbi State



The Buhari led administration said Nigerian farmers would begin exporting rice in months.

The statement was made on behalf of the president by the Acting Director, Corporate Communication of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Isaac Okoroafor.

According to Okoroafor, “Out of 6.1 million tons of rice needed to feed Nigerians, Kebbi State farmers alone produced over one million tons.

Okoroafor said the Apex bank is set to increase loans to rice farmers. The farmers in reaction said they are yet to be able to access the funds. In response, Okoroafor stated that “From the N220 billion, we are doing what is called the Anchor Borrower Program. We have just completed a pilot project in Kebbi State on rice and other states like Ebonyi, Taraba and Benue are queuing up.

“The Buhari led administration have realized that when farmers borrow money on their own to plant tomatoes, rice, cassava, and other farm produce, after harvesting, nobody take the produce from them and the market is lean too.

http://vanguardnigeria.org/nigeria-begin-exporting-rice-kebbi-state/

jimi4us:
IDP camps are hungry and this 5 lorry rice will be exported to another country? Buhari is an illiterate.

maxzzo1:

Nigerians can deceive themselves imagine we can't even feed ourselves if not why is a bag of rice 18k and we want to export ahahahahahaha

QuotaSystem:


Read carefully and save yourself the embarrassment.

It is a pilot program that just started and these are the first fruits so how does that affect the price of rice that's already in the market?

With the success of this pilot program, more farmers will subscribe to the Anchor Borrowers Scheme and the output will be in geometric multiples of what you're seeing here so don't burst your pipes already.

989900:


WOW!!! We can do this!



The above though.

jimi4us:
IDP camps are hungry and this 5 lorry rice will be exported to another country? Buhari is an illiterate.

jimi4us:
Buhari sef, export to where? All the almajiris and the other side don see rice chop?

omobaekiti:
its obvious you have not been to the North,shinkafa is very cheap there and its locally grown rice oh not your thailand/india rice.

jimi4us:
Buhari sef, export to where? All the almajiris and the other side don see rice chop?

WiseBully:
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[s]Risible! Feed the nation first before running to the press with sky-high dreamland unmet projections. Nigerians don't want more wishy-washy government talking....we need results! Please don't quote me with another ridiculous sickening plan! [/s]

demarc001:

See how sentiment is clouding your judgement, do the north give their agriculture to the federal account or they give you their food for free?