Local rice production in Nigeria has now reached 15 million metric tonnes annually, the government has claimed.

It said the development means the country will now be saving about N300 billion it used to spend annually on importation of the commodity.

The Director of Agriculture at the Kano office of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Muhammad Adamu, made the claim yesterday while inaugurating the Rice Millers Association of Nigeria, (RIMAN) in the state.

He said in Kano alone, 1.2 million metric tonnes of rice was produced in 2016.

He said with the significant increase in local productions and the efforts to make the local variety qualitative and more attractive to Nigerians, the country expects to begin exporting rice to West African countries by 2018/2019.

Adamu, according to Premium Times, said about 34 states in Nigeria are producing rice, with many now producing three times in a year.

He disclosed that investigation carried out by the federal government revealed that rice imported to Nigeria are 10-15 years old and are preserved with chemicals which can cause cancer to consumers.

In his remarks, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rice Miller’s Association, Peter Dama, said, the association was established to promote local milling of rice that is fresh, healthy and nutritious.

He said the association is willing to collaborate with the Nigeria Customs Service to stem smuggling of expired rice into Nigeria.

Dama added that the association intended to work closely with regulatory agencies and policymakers to ensure standard in local rice milling.

The customs officer in charge of rice enforcement, Ado Hassan, warned that officers caught conniving with rice smugglers would have themselves to blame.

He said in less than one year, the zonal command of the agency confiscated 800,000 bags of rice in Kano and Jigawa States.

He said about 9,000 bags of the rice are still in the stores of the agency, adding that most of the rice were being given to internally displaced persons after been certified fit for consumption by the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

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Upon all these figures Audu Ogbeh said there are no bags to bagged the rice produced in this country.

The kind of stupid reasoning coming from our government this days can be so disgusting. The minister for education was quoted as saying some of the minister masterminded the ASUU strike so that they can robe him of nonperformance.

When he was busy writing gibberish against the Federal Government as a member of ASUU, he has forgotten that. Now that the table is turning against the next thing which is common to the APC Government is giving excuses that stinks beyond the sky.

Upon all these figures Audu Ogbeh said there are no bags to bagged the rice produced in this country.

The kind of stupid reasoning coming from our government this days can be so disgusting. The minister for education was quoted as saying some of the ministers in the cabinet as himself masterminded the ASUU strike so that they can robe him of nonperformance.

When he was busy writing gibberish against the Federal Government as a member of ASUU, he has forgotten that. Now that the table is turning against the next thing which is common to the APC Government is giving excuses that stinks beyond the sky.

Truth234:


He said in Kano alone, 1.2 million metric tonnes of rice was produced in 2016.

Which Kano

They must be talking of e-rice.

I know there is marked improvement in rice cultivation but I doubt the quoted figures as there are no verifiable records to validate his claim.

I hope we don't get cancer

This govt will definitely bounce back the lost glory of Nigeria by the PDP. Working without noise

Invisible rice

N has this reduced the price

See lie. Lai has infected all these people.

K

Trust me Those Miscreants that were busy cursing Buhari wen he banned sale of forex to rice importers will come here and say "God bless GEJ"...

but then its Buhari that ate all the curses and blame wen he tried forcing us to go back to the farm... no be say im concern me sef, Buhari dey dey flex for London, GEJ dey busy dey go on world tour... me dey here dey reason where breakfast go comot from.

make I come dey go mbok.

Like seriously, the only question I have for then is how much is a bag of rice?
Just watch all these figures, APC has began their subtle propaganda ahead of the next general elections. The earlier the opposition parties checkmates them, the better for our economic sanity

And still yet Local Rice still the sell 400 per mudu...where are dey producing d rice sef am here in Jos buying Foreign rice 600 per mudu..social media with lies sha..God bless Nigeria!

Yet we are still buying it above 12k per bag, I don't no why all these paper statistics irk me?

Local rice production in Nigeria has now reached 15 million metric tonnes annually, the government has claimed.

These people are quickly coming out with false figures to disparage the facts laid down by Jonathan.

The truth is, this government is a failure.

When last did you hear the government commission a completed project or even start a new one?

Infrastructure is rotting away in Nigeria.

Boko haram is probably at it's worse ( killed 30 persons the other day and no major Nigerian news channel carried it, even though it was major headlines in foreign news channels. ) and nobody is saying anything.

It's high time genuine Nigeria rise up against these devils.

Very soon every tongue shall confess that Buhari means we'll for Nigeria

Ok

See them for upp.... Any good news, some people must still talk.... They just cnt stop hating it is in their DNA...

nice development. Na for price to com down remain.

yes.....we're getting there. our vision is to be self-sufficient in terms of agricultural products by dec 2018.
no more importation of foreign foods.

This might save us some fx but won't likely reduce commodity price, at least not until farming and milling cost is greatly reduced by fully-mechanizing and subsidizing...

I also think they must have calculated the capacities of the proposed rice mills here and there to arrive at this 15mill tonnes, bec I no think say we dey chop pass 6mill tonnes annually, and we've been importing about 60% of that

foreign rice are expired products?but when custom confiscated them and NAFDAC test them,they are now fit for consumption for IDP and custom bosses?Nigeria is a miracle country.

We know the region that produced the least food

The real parasites

Davash222:

Which Kano

How many Kano you know? Muntulah!

Cool so how much is a bag of rice now?