ehissi:


Hmmm.....Coscharis built a Rice mill worth over 35million dollars, with 3000hectres of land.

At the current rate of production it supplied 40,000metric tonnes of rice per year, at full capacity it will supply 120,000metric tonnes of rice per year.

That 120,000metrics tonnes of rice so, is the daily demand of rice for just 3 days for only lagos state (does not include the other 35 states of the federation and abuja), that hundreds of people will sweat to produce in one year and stone sef full am....

Insecurity has driven people away from the farm, even in Uromi now, farming na community project, they move in packs like wolves, so if anything happens, who go fit manage escape go tell the story of wetin happen go dey.

Government should stop lying to itself, and tell the truth. It should stop paying lip service to security challenges in the country.

Else, if they continue like this, they will be forced to start considering subsidy for rice, when a bag of rice hits #60,000. Make them no open border and put pressure on smugglers, you will see drama.

That time na big brother Naija and bob risky them go blame for scarcity and high price of rice, no be PDP again........

You have all the facts but I chose to be positive and hope for better tomorrow.

ubandawaki:
Hoarding need to be seriously dealt with also and there should be price control of commodities by the government.

Government has no right to tell you how much you should sell your product in a free market.

If not that our government is lazy and only good at privatization. The government should have gotten into rice production either by planting the rice or buying the unprocessed rice from farmers and processing it. Thus the government rice will be competition to the greedy sellers and hoarders.

sentra05:
What you are saying is a mere assumption. There is no evidence that points to the fact that the border closure will make Nigerians go into large scale farming. The cost of doing business in Nigeria is high and this is the main issue. We are now in globalization era and this means whatever that is produced in Nigeria should compete in price and quality with imported ones if we are serious.
If we produce rice that competes in quality and price with imported ones, importation will die a natural death and our focus should be on strengthen our capacity to produce competitive rice. This by force approach will just punish the citizens for nothing and will not achieve any sustainable improvement. Mark my words, they will open the border again at some point after wasting our time

Exactly what I say.

How could a rice imported from Asia to Benin and "smuggled" into Nigeria still be cheaper than rice produced in Nigeria? That's the question the government should be asking, for only therein lies the solution. That is, if they are not too lazy to implement what they would learn from the answer.

Racoon:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/10/12/border-closure-exposes-nigerias-deficiency-in-local-rice-production-2/amp/

It's Benin Republic Borders that are closed just to victimize The Yorubas and stop them from trading viably with their Neighbors. Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano, Jigawa, Yobe and Borno all have free and unimpeachable flow of goods, services and immigrants into Nigeria.

kwyllancy:
Abakaliki rice remains strategic in the face of Nigeria's economic volatility.

Where is the Abakaliki rice now..?? I am sure the price has been inflated beyond the reach of ordinary Nigerians becos of greed.