The President of Rice Millers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN) Peter Dama has said that the lingering insecurity across the country which has made it impossible for some farmers to access their farms, has left millers without paddy to mill.

He said there are situations where after planting, farmers who were able to access their farms would discover that the bandits have harvested their rice and taken them away.

Speaking with Nigerian Tribune, Dama said climatic conditions such as drought is also affection rice production in some parts of the country

“You find out that people are being chased out of their farms, or they go to their farms and find out that vandals or bandits have harvested their crops and taken them away. Insecurity is a very big challenge and it is affecting production in terms of cultivation."

“Secondly, the rains are not just there, a lot of the rivers or places people use for planting rice are dried up, that is not within our control, you give somebody a farm, he digs a borehole and there is no water, these are natural things affecting production”, he said.

Furthermore, he said poor power supply and vandalization of power infrastructure in the factories and high cost of diesel have left miller frustrated.

“For production, power is very essential, because in a factory or production area, you need to have power. In Spite of the difficulties that power distribution companies are having, there are some Nigerians that are so terrible that they go to vandalize power infrastructure.

“Government is trying to provide for you to be able to process and mill rice, at the end of the day, you go to your factory to find out that your armoured cables have been vandalised, that is a problem.


“A lot of millers depend on generators because of the failure in the provision of energy, but these generating sets don’t use water, they use diesel and petrol, but the price of diesel has skyrocketed, and it is a problem.

He said Nigerian miller and rice processors are doing their best in such a way that in spite of the challenges , they still continue production.

“Do not expect millers or processors to be the people that subsidise consumption for this country, it is expected that with the difficulties we are passing through, we should be able to make little profits. The sac bag used to cost maybe N1000, but currently, it has gone up to between N3000 to N5000 per sac bag.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/insecurity-erratic-power-bane-of-rice-production-in-nigeria-%e2%80%95-riman/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Enjoy your Buhari

Buharri is leading the North from the front

Buhari is a disaster.

.Bandits are the real citizens under this government

I’m seriously thinking there is something these miscreants wants from the federal government, in which the FG is trying to avoid or dodge from..



A deal gone wrong between them i think

Naija na pure joke

That's bad

Buhari doesn't give a hoot about his Hausa cousins who have died in thousands.

All he cares about are his Fulanis.

Let EVERYONE know this and know peace.

Lol

God have mercy
This is more than "no pain no gain" in farming.
It's now "More pain no gain"

Hmm

That was the plan all along...

Ik

IlovePMB:
Enjoy your Buhari

U mean bandits help una harvest una crops? �

What goes around comes around. What farmers were facing in Makurdi can now be felt now be fully felt in Maiduguri.

Isa Pantami has made sure rice can not be harvested without linking your NIN to the crops.

Therefore it is safe to assume that these "bandits" were just collecting rice to create another rice pyramid.

President Buhari has done it again with his brilliant and forward thinking leadership.

okay

Do you know what pains me the most in this country is that we have a retired Major General as a president and bandits are having the best time of theirs while Nigerians suffer. Nigerian Army was once the best in Africa during their days in Ecomog. The so called retired Major General has reduced Nigerian Army and Nigerians to nothing.

Bandits for kukuma kill all of una wey bring this calamity. Una never see anything, na everybody go collect.

KingOfAllIgbos:


Buhari doesn't give a hoot about his Hausa cousins who have died in thousands.

All he cares about are his Fulanis.

Let EVERYONE know this and know peace.

shut up!

you obviously don't know anything about us and what we think, you just come here and be saying rubbish.

I'm Fulani and I'll speak for all my people that buhari is a colossal failure and nobody likes him.

take it from a fulani guy.

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That morally dead Buhari defender called Tinubuadvocate has quickly evacuated his family from Nigeria so that they can avoid the consequences of buhari's bad government.


He paints Buhari as the best, yet he doesn't want Buhari to preside over the destiny of his wife and children.

very soon them go use helicopter to escort farmers very funny government

Livelihood and Economic powers are been taken away from the people by both government and bandits. Government burdens the people with all manners of tax coupled with poor infrastructure that limits Nigerians to little or no opportunities...bandit are forcefully taking away their lives and livelihood.

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