₦airaland Forum

sassysure:
Rice farming is very expensive.
Are they ready to invest?
Good quality rice to plant, processing machines etc. Its not just buying acres of land.

So also local beans. I was saying that our beans have improved as the stones are getting fewer until I discovered that we import beans too.

U see tomatoes that look like tomatoe jos in Lagos and lo, they are imported.

OgbeniDawodu:
Nigerian Borders is porous because of the many small border towns but the influx of smuggled foriegn rice into the country has been reduced to the barest minimum.

oldtruth:
So sorry about that. Maybe you just have to take it down to Lagos or wherever you can get buyer for it rather than losing out completely.

deji17:
There are many farmers who have received. I have discussed with people who have receives thw loan. Not everybody will get it at the same time. Its like someone applying for NPower and has not received it saying Npower job is not real, whereas thousands of supporters have received it. Keep hope alive. It will get to you once your intentions are genuine.

MusaChukwudi:
Ignorance is terrible! Who banned you from importing rice? When? Where?

MusaChukwudi:
Ok, the government now says no more import export via land, case closed full stop.

Area4Area:
This has been what we've being trying to educate them but they fail to listen, just shouting ban, ban, ban upandan when nothing was banned

Area4Area:
Benin rep can even export their home grown rice into Nigeria but should not allow importers to use their ports and the goods find its way into Nigeria

Area4Area:
Can you give us a proof or link of increased smuggling across the border? People are still allowed to import rice through our ports

Okoroawusa:
Foreign rice will always be in the market because you can import it through the seaport...


Do you understand?

deji17:
There is the Govt anchor borrowers programme meant for farmers. People are assesing the Loan as cooperative. Loan and finacial assistance through relative and friends. Start small. No be when person grow tall him dey tall reach heaven.

Okoroawusa:
Foreign rice will always be in the market because you can import it through the seaport...


Do you understand?

MusaChukwudi:
Legit? Via land border and Benin?

OgbeniDawodu:
Nigeria is asking for a simple commitment that they ensure any goods Nigeria deemed contraband doesn't leave their country into Nigeria.

IceColdVeins:
Can someone analyze how the closure of borders will benefit me as an individual?
Cos all I see is inflation and famine.

May I remind you the rationale for this very closure of borders? Its is almost solely to curb the issue of smuggling..... not just staple foods but everything....up from car spare parts down to your okirika clothes. We all know how exorbitant it is to clear container from the customs point due to high import duties and recalcitrant briberies. Now that aside!!

Closure of the bordering gates to curb smuggling analytically means all or most of the smuggled products come through those gates
Now this should be the logic
1. smuggling is corruption (unarguable)
2. All smuggled commodities come through the border (very arguable)
Closure of border will curb/reduce smuggling...........fine
Mitigation of corruption at the borders will curb/reduce smuggling.........fine
Since smuggling is a function of corruption in the borders (S=f(c)) Why not tackle corruption at the borders instead of subjecting the common man to more hardship without putting in place any form of ''shock-absorber''
When America wanted to boost their local steel production value that importation had almost crippled, you know what they did? they didnt even halt the importation, rather they lifted taxes on the local ores and placed huge taxes on the imported. Diplomatically, the market tilted to the side of the local steel production. Now this is how policies from informed set of parliaments look like.
I have always said this, until Nigeria starts to run the government&police like a corporate organisation(bottom-up approach), where KPIs(key performance indicators) are reviewed, operations externally audited with impending sanctions for code of conducts breachers, only then the government can function.
You've been shouting farming, need I remind you that locally made rice as a case study is always double the price of the imported. Now the imported has been banned, you think the prices of local rice would go down? Check your law of supply!!! Anyways thanks God fake/non-durable aba made clothings will be glorified atlast cos nobody go fit afford the original which import duties go don almost choke to death. So poor rats will be poorer cos aba made will now be more expensive once the demand increases.

Government did the right thing for sure but it was poorly strategized and for the wrong cause!!!
Anyways, Orun nyabo, kon shoro enikan (IF sky dey fall, na all of us head e go knack)
Body go teh u!!

deji17:
You can easily cash in on this. Many Farmers are doing it, so can you. You just need to learn how they do it. Its a simple sturvs..

Honor10:
This is a step in right direction, it will be difficult at the beginning, but this will force our local producers to step up their games, and we will have abundance with time.

I commend the president and the vice President for this.

signz:
Which advanced nation passed thru this hardship? Was there a time Japan closed their borders?

China had a policy like this under Mao. Millions died and millions more fell into abject poverty.

What happened next? Deng Xiaoping came and opened the Chinese market to international trade. What happened next will shock us.

According to the World Bank, more than 850 million people have lifted themselves out of extreme poverty as China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015.

Nigerians should please google how Deng Xiaoping did it. Read up on economics,google how other nations did theirs. Please don't allow serpents deceive you into believing that this border blockage is good.

Nigerian businessmen also export goods to Ecowas Community and these businesses pay tax. Ecowas trade is worth $300 bn annually.

ranksz:
This is a welcome development. With this, in about 6 months, no one will be thinking if foreign Rice again as we should have been self sufficient in Rice production.

Even if we are nit yet, we will eat alternatives

Area4Area:
This has always been my prayer, 50k for a bag of rice, let our farmers enjoy and let Benin Rep government and people suffer for trying to disrupt our economy

plaindealer:
Even you as a Nigerian which advantage have you taken on it apart from criticizing government policies?

The fact is, it doesn't matter how you cut and dice this closure policy, it's a good thing for Nigeria and it should have been done decades ago, but the crooks benefiting from smuggling and anti Nigerian activities didn't let it happen.

Once upon a time in the Nigeria customs, the most lucrative and desirable posting was Seme Border posting. Why? Because of smuggling and the huge amount of money they collect from smugglers.

Nigerians want a better country where they have cheap and enough food to eat, but small sacrifices needed to get them there is a burden.

Fair trade and protectionism are major issues all over the world today, responsible countries are protecting their borders, slamming tariffs on cheating countries with unfair trade policies , but ordinary border closing to make sure you have food security in the future is a big deal.

What do you people really want.?

ajl:
Of course, that's the whole idea as this will encourage local food production. If Nigerians do not take advantage of this then they have themselves to blame.

uwabuwa888:
There is no deficiency in local production.. rather what we have is greedy enterprenuers..
Some will use their last card a buy hopefully to resell in December period..but am laughing..
They forget the presidency just formed an economic advisory committee...watch as some people will lose billion and million in the name of storing rice ..
Before December.. federal government will push in rice it's stored and those the seize from boundary closure and will sell it at lower price. .

Area4Area:
It's obvious that you're either related or close to someone into smuggling, advice that person to start rice farming, importers and exporters can still use our ports, borders remain shut till Benin Rep government and people start getting some sense

Area4Area:
Let the Benin Rep government and people start to cooperate with Nigeria then the closure can be relaxed but for now it remains shut, they can't continue hurting our economy with their sabotage

komodapson:
There's no border in the world that is free from smugglers and illegal migrants...rather than spend huge financial resources in training custom officers, paying huge wages...why can't FGN remove subsidy on petrol , to discourage transborder PMS sale...since the price will arguably be uniform....and subsidize Education.. From Primary to Tertiary level and it must be in tandem with international standard and watch the nation experience astronomically growth...

Area4Area:
Let that bag of rice rise to 50k, the borders remain closed. Better go open a rice farm and make your millions as so many Nigerians are going into it now and tell your friends to use the seaports for now till the Benin Rep government and people start getting some sense.

Area4Area:
Let that bag of rice rise to 50k, the borders remain closed. Better go open a rice farm and make your millions as so many Nigerians are going into it now and tell your friends to use the seaports for now till the Benin Rep government and people start getting some sense.