Nigeria Rice Production Statistics!
 a year ago  21534 views by  George Ibenegbu

Nigeria is one of the biggest rice producers in Africa. Despite this fact, it`s also the largest rice importers in Africa. It`s an essential cash crop for small-scale producers! What can we notice in the Nigeria Rice production statistics? Continue reading to find out!


Rice production Statistics in Nigeria


Over the past decade, the rice consumption rates have risen rapidly. According to Stanley Nkwazema from This Day Live, only in the last decade, the consumption rate has risen to 7 million Metric Tons. Still, only 2.7 million metric tons are produced by Nigerian farmers.

According to the Index Mundi, this number has risen to 2.772 million metric tons. This means that even the increase in rice production in Nigeria still leaves a significant gap of 4.2-4.3 million metric tons. Therefore, Nigeria is only able to supply 49% of the domestic demand. Per capita consumption rate of rice is about 27 kilograms, according to Stanley Nkwazema.

The statistic of rice production in Nigeria clearly shows a 5% increase every year. For the first half of this year, it has already risen by 2.67%, according to the Index Mundi. The Industry Reports also shows the fluctuation of the local commodity production to be between 2,400 to 3,600 in the past five years. The import rates have also increased to 5,850 from 4,800 during the same period of time.

Rice Production Statistics in the States

Only eight states out of 36 can be considered heavy producers of rice. These states include:

- Anambra;

- Nassarawa;

- Ebonyi;

- Kaduna;

- Niger;

- Kano;

- Kaduna;

- Benue.

According to the Nigeria rice production statistics, the imports have started to make up 50% of the local consumption rates. Currently, Nasarawa State is the leader when it comes to rice production in Nigeria. It has over 10,000 fully irrigated rice hectares, according to Stanley Nkwazema.

Anambra State is a clear miracle of rice production in Nigeria. The industrial rice farms have already pushed the rice production of the State from 90,000 metric tons to 210,00 metric tons. Stanley Nkwazema informs that with this capacity, production will soon reach 320,000 metric tons. Therefore, it will reach and then surpass the rates of consumption of rice in Anambra State. When this number is reached, it will show a clear victory over consumption rates.

Who are the importers of Nigeria?

The Global rice production statistics show that the top five importers of Nigeria are the USA, Vietnam, India, Thailand, and Brazil. These countries help Nigeria to overcome the shortfall of over 4.3 million metric tons. This shortfall is valued over N365 billion. This great sum of money is needed to meet Nigerian demand of over 7 million metric tons.

Why Nigeria can`t meet its own demand?

According to the Chairman of the Export Group of Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (NACCIMA), Ade Adefeko, the rice producers in Nigeria have to overcome great challenges to meet the market demands.

One of these challenges is the inadequate irrigation techniques. The low levels of technologies can`t result in a high yield! Therefore, the rice farmers are not able to fight against the impact of birds, insects, and weeds.

There are also other drawbacks which keeps Nigeria from being able to supply its own demand for rice. According to Ade Adefeko, these drawbacks include:

- Poor quality control practices;

- Poor drying techniques;

- Poor sorting drying techniques;

- Power failures in some regions of the country;

Ade Adefeko also disclosed that the problems of rice production are horrible for the end users. Due to the chaotic chain of suppliers, the end-user has to get the end product through a number of the middle-men. Therefore, the price of the end-product is pretty high.

Ade Adefeko, in his interview on This Day Live also pointed out that Nigeria keeps is working towards getting out from the rice import dependency, but the progress is too slow. The government of Nigeria may try to change the situation with agricultural loans or rice production loans.

Conclusion

The Statistics of rice production in Nigeria clearly shows that the country needs 7 million metric tons of its demand. For today, Nigeria is only capable to supply only 49% of domestic demand. The rice production in Nigeria keeps growing, but it will not be enough to supply the domestic demand of the whole country in the next several years.


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Note: Rice Production Rates In Nigeria (2017) - 2.7 Million Metric Tons
            Rice Production Rates In Nigeria (2018 under review) - Unverified!

            Rice Consumption Rates In Nigeria (2017) - 7 Million Metric Tons
            Rice Consumption Rates In Nigeria (2018 under review) - ?

            Percentage of Rice Production In Nigeria (2017) - 49%
            Percentage of Rice Production In Nigeria (2018 under review) - 51% (if 5% yearly additional production is factored in)

Nigeria is still the biggest importer of rice in Africa till date!

Osinbajo openly lied that Local Rice Production In Nigeria amounts to 90%! Please, Remember Osinbajo In Your Prayers Friends!

i think say some oga kpatapkata say we
no dey import rice again?

But the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Bia-fra terrorist said we don't produced rice in Nigeria,
The same lie they said our refinery don't refined any product.
They also said, no railway is working in Nigeria.

I think this report is incomplete without the mention of Kebbi State as a major producer of rice in Nigeria.

Ratello

Nonsense and ingredent. Such a waste effort for an article without a source except that one George Ibenegbu, likely an IPOB terrorist like the OP authored it.
@OP, you are not smart at all. Statistics on rice production in Nigerian are never uniform amongst those who chose to research and write on it. However, you hardly can find such low and ridiculous output figures you are propagating in articles by reliable sources
Why even bother replying you? You hateful lot never believed Nigeria was capable of producing a grain of rice in the first instance
Below are statistics from some reliable source

Rice production in Nigeria increases to 5.8m tonnes in 2017 –RIFAN

https://punchng.com/rice-production-in-nigeria-increases-to-5-8m-tonnes-in-2017-rifan/

Investors to stake fresh N250bn in Nigeria rice production

https://www.google.com/amp/s/guardian.ng/business-services/investors-to-stake-fresh-n250bn-in-nigeria-rice-production/amp

States Producing 5.7 Million Metric Tonnes of Rice – DFID

https://www.google.com/amp/s/investorsking.com/amp/states-producing-5-7-million-metric-tonnes-rice-dfid/

OHCOMEON:
I think this report is incomplete without the mention of Kebbi State as a major producer of rice in Nigeria.

Your head correct. What do expect, when things are done to spite someone rather than being objective.

docadams:


Nonsense and ingredent. Such a waste effort for an article without a source except that one George Ibenegbu, likely an IPOB terrorist like the OP authored it.
@OP, you are not smart at all. Statistics on rice production in Nigerian are never uniform amongst those who chose to research and write on it. However, you hardly can find such low and ridiculous output figures you are propagating in articles by reliable sources
Why even bother replying you? You hateful lot never believed Nigeria was capable of producing a grain of rice in the first instance
Below are statistics from some reliable source

Rice production in Nigeria increases to 5.8m tonnes in 2017 –RIFAN

https://punchng.com/rice-production-in-nigeria-increases-to-5-8m-tonnes-in-2017-rifan/

Investors to stake fresh N250bn in Nigeria rice production

https://www.google.com/amp/s/guardian.ng/business-services/investors-to-stake-fresh-n250bn-in-nigeria-rice-production/amp

States Producing 5.7 Million Metric Tonnes of Rice – DFID

https://www.google.com/amp/s/investorsking.com/amp/states-producing-5-7-million-metric-tonnes-rice-dfid/

You have no reasonable level of shame at all because if you do you would gave seen the source, the empirical analyses and the real names of stakeholders captured in the thread itself. May God deliver you soon.

Hehehe.jus laughing at this statistics.
U not including kebbi state is laughable.
Issues like this I believe should be Done objectively

Only God will save us from the kind of blatant lies and cheap propaganda this evil APC government keeps insulting our sensibilities with, even a so called pastor is not left behind!!!

Anambra is really a miracle that needs to be understudied by other states in Nigeria. For a state that is said to be the second smallest in terms of landmass, after Lagos to be producing the second highest volume of rice in Nigeria speaks volumes, especially on the backdrop that this same state is largely into commerce and industry as well as education!!!

This is for those that keep making noise about having large but worthless landmass.

buharitill2023:
But the jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Bia-fra terrorist said we don't produced rice in Nigeria,
The same lie they said our refinery don't refined any product.
They also said, no railway is working in Nigeria.

Your psychiatric issues is quite obvious. You may end up like awolowo if you continue like this.

OHCOMEON:
I think this report is incomplete without the mention of Kebbi State as a major producer of rice in Nigeria.

You are right comrade it must have been a typo error because even me was surprised too however if you look at the States mentioned, you will notice that Kaduna appeared twice which I want to believe Kebbi must have been intended in one of the missing space.

Ratello:


You have no reasonable level of shame at all because if you do you would gave seen the source, the empirical analyses and the real names of stakeholders captured in the thread itself. May God deliver you soon.

You are blinded by hate and bigotry not to acknowledge the abundance of reports from both local and foreign interest groups that renders your statistics inaccurate.. Where else can you get accurate data other than from the major stakeholders: CBN, MoA, NBS, DFID, PwH-C, RIFAN, GEMS4, OLAM, and of course, the participating states

If your statistics are reliable as you claim, I dare you to post, breakdown of production statistics by states

The CBN governor rightly put it this way
"“...Then how come an agency which has not been to Nigeria or even been to the farms to see what we are doing, just come up and say that Nigeria has imported 400,000 tonnes above what it normally should import?
Go to the data of countries that export rice, you would see their data; you would find the quantity of rice imported by Nigeria. This is false and fake news.” - the cable.

This op is Obi's junior brother, he's got special talent in lying

Sirjamo:
This op is Obi's junior brother, he's got special talent in lying

He graduated from the school of Obigotry and Atikulyintrics