The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has said that if appropriate measures were not taken to replant after the recent flood, the country may experience rice shortage.

Ogbeh disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday at the inauguration of National Agricultural Seed Council Molecular Facility and the 2018 Seed Fair and Farmer’s field day.

He said that the flood had affected some major rice producing states. He added that the country may experience scarcity of rice, if not addressed.

“We have to find a way to assist farmers, who were affected by the flood. States like Jigawa, Kebbi, Anambra and Kogi were majorly affected. Farmers lost everything they planted.

“There are different varieties of rice that are being produced at NASC like faro 66 and 67 which are flood tolerant.


“We hope to get them into the field in large quantity for farmers to plant in the near future.

“We are also hoping that as soon as the rain seized, farmers will replant so that the residual moisture in the soil plus irrigation can give us another crop by the end of December or early January.”

Otherwise, the minister said, Nigeria will experience difficulty in the supply of rice, and other grains like millet, sorghum and maize next year.
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Have we been experiencing Rice Surplus?....





If we ever experienced rice surplus then one bag suppose be like 3k.

Useless minister useless president

No be APC again?
They can never take a step forward without taking 20 backwards.

Even forgot this ancestor was still the minister of Agriculture. How did your phoney exportation of yam end? Now its time to give excuses on governments failure to adequately feed Nigerians. The fact that some still root for this government to continue for whatever reason beats my imagination.

Will it be worst than what Nigerians are experiencing now or 2015/16?
Mr minister, go and sit down.

not just rice...food shortage......herdsmen don destroy farmlands everywhere.

For 16 yrs Pdp never planted rice, not to talk of flood destroying the rice or talk of replanting,
Buhari is really and seriously working .
The jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of bia-fra terrorist don't use to hear of all this achievement of just 2yrs.

Alphafeezay:
Have we been experiencing Rice Surplus?....





If we ever experienced rice surplus then one bag suppose be like 3k.

Useless minister useless president

are you not be eating rice?

We have been eating rice in Nigeria for decades but it's only in this present regime that we are hearing of the phrase "Nigeria may experience rice shortage in 2019"
What a party filled with people of no single respect for the masses they have subjected to abject poverty.

Shut up Audi Ogbeh there was never any rice in first place..to hell with APC lies ..now the want to blame flood

APC and propaganda don come again

80% of the rice consumed in Nigeria come from outside
Even with the so called surplus rice you cannot buy a bag of 50kg rice below 15k. Clowns

buhariguy:
For 16 yrs Pdp never planted rice, not to talk of flood destroying the rice or talk of replanting,
Buhari is really and seriously working .
The jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of bia-fra terrorist don't use to hear of all this achievement of just 2yrs.

PDP didn't plant rice buts it's minister of Agriculture is still adjudged the best ever in Africa so much he was poach to head the African Development Bank ...

Since the inception of the dullard, there have been shortage of every good thing in the country.

Since 2015, how many bags of rice have you bought?

When a president is economically, commercially, industrially, mentally, intellectually, and educationally dull, what do you expect?

We just have to cope till 2019, it will all be over soon. By early next year, the dullard will be sent back to Daura to lead his cows.

Hopefully, a new life will begin for Nigerians and things will get better then.

God bless the Federal Republic of Niger Delta!

FarahAideed:


PDP didn't plant rice buts it's minister of Agriculture is still adjudged the best ever in Africa so much he was poach to head the African Development Bank ...

he is better than past and present minister of agriculture but he decided to work under ineffectual buffoon, that is how adesina joined in the failure of your ineffectual buffoon.

Didn't Buhari and his APC government already brag about how they are world leaders in rice production?

baliyubla:
Even forgot this ancestor was still the minister of Agriculture. How did your phoney exportation of yam end? Now its time to give excuses on governments failure to adequately feed Nigerians. The fact that some still root for this government to continue for whatever reason beats my imagination.

not govt job to feed you

Anticipatory declaration of absolute failure.

Mr Minister, What percentage of your salary have you donated to those farmers affected by Flood?