The federal government is disturbed over high cost of local rice in the country, which it said is now above the price of imported rice.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, while responding to questions at a Town Hall meeting in Abuja yesterday, said the situation was disturbing, considering government’s efforts at encouraging local production of rice in the country.

He spoke yesterday in Abuja while delivering a good will message at the consultative forum on national farmers’ empowerment programme, organized by the Agric ministry and Eurobase Consult limited.

The minister raised the concern just as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Abdullahi Adamu, said the country spent too much time talking about agriculture with little results to show.

“We have talked enough as a country on agriculture; we have lamented enough on agriculture. I do not want to be a prophet of doom. We have had workshops like this, seminars like this, where is the result? READ MORE......http://www.newsresidence.tk/2017/05/fg-worries-over-high-cost-of-local-rice.html