₦airaland Forum

Speakz:
In summary, the price of rice should stay higher than what ordinary Nigerians can afford so that the millers and investors can continue being in profit

Putinofrussia:
You can't continue to sell at outrageous prices and expect the masses to suffer.
It is better you collapse than allow Nigerians and Nigeria to collapse.
It was the importation that gave the masses a little relief because the way our people were going , in order to continue to rake in their humongous profits, a bag of rice would have gone up to #200,000 or even more than that..
The govt should put on their thinking cap.
Anything that had to do with food for the masses,should be rigorously monitored and regulated.
We want to produce truly but our people are just too greedy.They want to recoup all the money they invested within months.
Rice is Nigerians' staple food,the govt can't afford to leave it totally in their hands.
We can learn from what cement has become now because it is produced locally.

Softmirror:
LET IT COLLAPSE YAKATA FOR GROUND! These ungrateful greedy lots were busy hoarding rice so that the price will continue to rise.

Kukutente23:
What about fuel subsidy
You don't want fuel to be cheap but you want rice to be cheap

Softmirror:
LET IT COLLAPSE YAKATA FOR GROUND! These ungrateful greedy lots were busy hoarding rice so that the price will continue to rise.

Biodun556:
They should collapse if they will continue to put Nigerians in hunger and suffering

Under Buhari, they collected grants, loans and greedily hoard rice and increased price. They are useless.

Putinofrussia:
We borrowed billion of dollars to pay for fuel subsidy not rice,sir.

yemmit90:
I understood how greedy they are, reason I said they should rather lower their price and compete with imported rice.

However, you don't compare livestock with plantation of stable food like rice, maize, beans, etc Besides, animals too feed on plants produce by plantation farmers, so it logical to subsidise the plantation of these plants that will eventually bring down the cost of feeding our animals.

Farming are mostly subsidise anywhere in the world, and the best way to do this in Nigeria is to provide the aforementioned items to them for ultimum cheap productions.

DIVINEEVIDENCE:
If fertilizer is free it will be abused.
If fertilizer is dirt cheap it will be smuggled out for brisk business.

Farmers are not just a special breed of Nigerians.
They are the same Nigerians you know, the same Nigerians you meet everyday and the same Nigerians you complain about.


The government, if they're serious about food security, should start by securing Benue state and other native agrarian communities where indigenes live in farmsteads and plant and harvest without bothering anyone about incentives.

If these farmers are not free to farm and have their harvest secured from the rampaging, ubiquitous futa jallon wanderers, then all government talk about food security is pure hogwash.

The government should fix transportation infrastructure and make storage and export seamless.

That's what the Nigerian farmer needs and not government handouts that would appeal to and awake the greedy spirit in him.

lionshare:
I don’t think Nigeria has a comparative advantage in rice production; we will only be self-inflicting high prices by insisting on local production. Let’s look for areas where we have advantages and export to the world while we import services or products where our local production cost is not competitive. This is commonsensical because it’s better to have 200 million well-fed citizens with access to relatively cheaper rice than to have fewer than 500,000 farmers profiteering from the high cost of local produce at expense of 200m folks.

persius555:
The fact is simple. Nigeria cannot compete with other nations when it comes to production.
Government needs to subsidize cost of production like other nations are doing not giving out money to portfolio farmers. It'll take years of investment before we'll start to see results that'll be sustainabie.

At the moment, the government cannot continue to allow its citizens go hungry because some farmers want leverage on farm production.
A nation filled with hungry citizens is more dangerous than allowing inflow of fireign rice.

It's a complex balancing act that needs intelligent approach.