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Nigeria's rice belt isn’t where you think it is.
From the paddies of the North Central zone yielding over 3.5 million metric tons, to the South East’s struggling output of just over half a million, a stark pattern emerges, not just in total production, but in how efficiently each region grows its rice.
While North Central leads both in total volume and yield per hectare (2.17 MT/ha), the South West and North East lag behind in productivity, clocking in at 1.78 and 1.69 MT/ha, respectively.
What do these numbers reveal? Not just regional disparities, but the untapped potential and overlooked weaknesses, in Nigeria's food security equation.

RICE PRODUCTION PER CAPITA — 2024

BY ZONE
Rice Production [MT] vs Population
North Central — 3.51m | 33.07m
North West — 2.12m | 62.42m
North East — 1.65m | 31.96m
South West — 736K | 43.70m
South South — 599K | 31.69m
South East — 521K | 24.85m

Rice Production per capita
North Central — 106.01Kg
North East — 51.51Kg
North West — 33.98Kg
South East — 20.98Kg
South South — 18.92Kg
South West — 16.85Kg

North Central — 3.51 million MT
North West — 2.12 million MT
North East — 1.65 million MT
South West — 736K MT
South South — 599K MT
South East — 521K MT

RICE YIELD, MT per Hectare
North Central — 2.17
North West — 2.12
South South — 2.12
South East — 1.83
South West — 1.78
North East — 1.69

#Statisense

(Agricultural Productivity Survey, Federal Min of Agric)

https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1950820233838518549

Wey imported rice still cheaper, I like how locally rice processing has greatly improved.

Insecurity playing a bigger part in the shortage of rice production

Okay

Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and punctuation.

DrMB:
Nigeria's rice belt isn’t where you think it is.
From the paddies of the North Central zone yielding over 3.5 million metric tons, to the South East’s struggling output of just over half a million, a stark pattern emerges, not just in total production, but in how efficiently each region grows its rice.
While North Central leads both in total volume and yield per hectare (2.17 MT/ha), the South West and North East lag behind in productivity, clocking in at 1.78 and 1.69 MT/ha, respectively.
What do these numbers reveal? Not just regional disparities, but the untapped potential and overlooked weaknesses, in Nigeria's food security equation.


https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1950820233838518549

Hmm. So the north east, south west and south east have no comparative advantage in rice. But the differences aren't by a wide a wide margin. So we can grow rice in parts of the country. Interesting.

D southeast is trying. with just five states and a small portion of land, contributing their best for now even in Tax and Vat

Nigeria has no reason importing rice if insecurity can be dealt with and people get serious with Agriculture

The statistics make no sense in agricultural business because one can not read the data with any analysis. If it were to be shown the last fiveconsecutive years, then we would be taking into consideration the intensity of the usual crisis in these states/zones

Gotocourt:
Wey imported rice still cheaper, I like how locally rice processing has greatly improved.

You mean rubber rice?





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Naija is blessed with some of the most fertile soil on the entire Mother Earth. No need to be importing one bag of rice from other nations. Hopefully the powers that be get very serious about ending the insecurity malaise very soon.

Rice farmers made rice very expensive due to greed.

Na statistics we go chop. Rice no dey at affordable price right now

What a paradoxw😏water water every where but no a single drop to drink. 😕

South East is carrying southern Nigerian, and it's just Ebonyi that is really doing rice production. When the other states come online, they will rival the north

Sirleo05:
D southeast is trying. with just five states and a small portion of land, contributing their best for now even in Tax and Vat

Federal allocation should be based on contributions to the fed purse.

Imagine producing 20kg per capita when another zone produces 106 per capita.

Oga enugu and anambra dey plant rice and selling in large quantity so know what you’re saying.

Ofodirinwa:
South East is carrying southern Nigerian, and it's just Ebonyi that is really doing rice production. When the other states come online, they will rival the north

Richtaiwo:
Federal allocation should be based on contributions to the fed purse.

Imagine producing 20kg per capita when another zone produces 106 per capita.

How much tax revenue is generated from rice farming compared to crude oil production?

Did you discuss this your proposal with the senator and the representative you sent to Abuja? What was their response about including this in the ongoing 6th Amendment to the 1999 constitution?

anonimi:
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.

He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.

The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

― Bertolt Brecht

columbus007:
What a paradoxw😏water water every where but no a single drop to drink. 😕

Are you referring to ebilokan and his 26 years lootocracy Lagos master plan that has failed to deliver pipe borne water despite huge increase of IGR squeeze from the masses?

What is the Lagos landlord doing with all the trillions annual budget if he is not employing well paid technicians, administrators, engineers, billing staff etc to make ordinary water supply available for 20 million Lagosians?

Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low

A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.

Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.

The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.

'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.

"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.

"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.

He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.

''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.

''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.

''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.

The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.

From: http://www.punchng.com/politics/lawm...rporation-low/
https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=mes_capstones;Ensuring

cjfavour:
Oga enugu and anambra dey plant rice and selling in large quantity so know what you’re saying.

Here are the available data for the Top 10 highest rice producing states in Nigeria for the year 2022;
1. Kebbi state – 3.5 million MT
2. Jigawa state – 2.1 million MT

3. Kano state -1.6 million MT

4. Ekiti state – 1.5 million MT

5. Benue state – 1.5 million MT

6. Ebonyi state -1.5 million MT

7. Kaduna state – 634,410 MT

8. Niger state – 380,000 MT

9. Cross-River state – 50,000 MT

10. Ogun state – 20,000 MT

Politicians ban foreign rice against the poor so that it will be left for them to consume.

Rice Production per capita
North Central — 106.01Kg
North East — 51.51Kg
North West — 33.98Kg
South East — 20.98Kg
South South — 18.92Kg
South West — 16.85Kg

Insecurity and our borders lapses are what we should look into. Thes figures aren't bad if we want to eat our locals produced rice, and this is showing me that we do not need any imported rice e if we can make our local rice free from stone, produce all cooked rice, etc.

What quantity of rice does an individual eat? A normal human won't eat 2kg per month na. This is max, so that he can eat 24kg per year. Only someone eating mountain of rice daily and who is definitely flying towards his grave earlier than expected will consume an average of 5kg per month. So, matching this reasoning with the figures above simply means we do not need more rice production for local consumption; however, we can increase it so we can export to other Afeican nations.

BreakingNews21:
Naija is blessed with some of the most fertile soil on the entire Mother Earth. No need to be importing one bag of rice from other nations. Hopefully the powers that be get very serious about ending the insecurity malaise very soon.

Lies. Just like the usual myths like, our forefathers lived longer.

Subsaharan Africa as a whole has less arable lands than most places on earth. It's why most crops can't grow here. Red soil = not arable, especially for economic scale cultivation.

Richtaiwo:
Federal allocation should be based on contributions to the fed purse.

Imagine producing 20kg per capita when another zone produces 106 per capita.

I guess you’re blind to the one that produced 16 per capita? 🌚🤭

CorrectionFLuid:
Lies. Just like the usual myths like, our forefathers lived longer.

Subsaharan Africa as a whole has less arable lands than most places on earth. It's why most crops can't grow here. Red soil = not arable, especially for economic scale cultivation.

Read more and type/talk non-informed responses less.
'Hundreds of white farmers return to Zimbabwe in boost for agriculture'
Two decades after thousands of white farmers were forced from their land without compensation, a new generation is back to start again
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/white-farmers-return-to-zimbabwe-agriculture-boost/

DrMB:
Nigeria's rice belt isn’t where you think it is.
From the paddies of the North Central zone yielding over 3.5 million metric tons, to the South East’s struggling output of just over half a million, a stark pattern emerges, not just in total production, but in how efficiently each region grows its rice.
While North Central leads both in total volume and yield per hectare (2.17 MT/ha), the South West and North East lag behind in productivity, clocking in at 1.78 and 1.69 MT/ha, respectively.
What do these numbers reveal? Not just regional disparities, but the untapped potential and overlooked weaknesses, in Nigeria's food security equation.



RICE PRODUCTION PER CAPITA — 2024

BY ZONE
Rice Production [MT] vs Population
North Central — 3.51m | 33.07m
North West — 2.12m | 62.42m
North East — 1.65m | 31.96m
South West — 736K | 43.70m
South South — 599K | 31.69m
South East — 521K | 24.85m

Rice Production per capita
North Central — 106.01Kg
North East — 51.51Kg
North West — 33.98Kg
South East — 20.98Kg
South South — 18.92Kg
South West — 16.85Kg

North Central — 3.51 million MT
North West — 2.12 million MT
North East — 1.65 million MT
South West — 736K MT
South South — 599K MT
South East — 521K MT

RICE YIELD, MT per Hectare
North Central — 2.17
North West — 2.12
South South — 2.12
South East — 1.83
South West — 1.78
North East — 1.69

#Statisense

(Agricultural Productivity Survey, Federal Min of Agric)

https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1950820233838518549

b]RICE PRODUCTION PER CAPITA — 2024

BY ZONE
Rice Production [MT] vs Population[/b]
North Central — 3.51m | 33.07m
North West — 2.12m | 62.42m
North East — 1.65m | 31.96m
South West — 736K | 43.70m
South South — 599K | 31.69m
South East — 521K | 24.85m