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Local rice that is full of stones and almost same price as foreign rice

the last time i mistakenly bought local rice i wept. i asked myself is this what buhari n his co travellers r eating?


they cant eat that sandy thing abeg. mek dem no fool us.

they keep saying what we import r expired rice not fit for consumption n can kill, i don waka taya check all cemetary for akwaibom i never see tomb stone where cary killed by eating foreign rice.


in case any body see such tombstone call me n get 10thousand nigerian naira

i know all this while that the so called agric minister is busy lieing about rice exportation.

Nbote:
Oga show me d current stats of rice production in Nigeria and show me d stat as at 2015 and den do same for imports... Go to Sokoto and other northern bothers and see d number of truckloads of rice coming into dis country.. For ur information d govt placed a ban on providing Forex for imports of some commodities including rice so I wonder which of UR FOREX u are talking about...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the volume of rice imported into the country has declined drastically in 2018, according to figures from official sources.

NAN reports that Isaac Okorafor, director, corporate communications at CBN, made this known in a statement on Tuesday.

Okorafor said by September, Nigeria had imported 5,161 metric tonnes of rice from Thailand and 426 metric tonnes of rice from India as of July — amounting to less than 6,000 metric tonnes in 2018.

The CBN spokesman said this is against the 400,000 metric tonnes being bandied around due to “expected demand by politicians for election campaigns”.

He attributed the reduced imports to “concerted efforts” by the ministry of agriculture and rural development and the interventions of the CBN.

Okorafor said the ministry and the CBN had been collaborating to reduce the volume of rice importation through the “rice revolution”.

He explained that the apex bank had not allocated any foreign exchange for the importation of rice in 2018, adding that the imports from Thailand and India were done on “not-valid-for-forex basis”.

“The figures being bandied in certain quarters were based on unrealistic assumptions such as satellite mapping of farms, expected demand by politicians for election campaigns and expected losses from flooding,” the statement quoted Okorafor as saying.

“All of these led to unauthentic conclusions that the country had imported or could import 400,000 more metric tonnes.”
https://www.thecable.ng/cbn-rice-importation-reduced-in-2018

samebony1:
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the volume of rice imported into the country has declined drastically in 2018, according to figures from official sources.

NAN reports that Isaac Okorafor, director, corporate communications at CBN, made this known in a statement on Tuesday.

Okorafor said by September, Nigeria had imported 5,161 metric tonnes of rice from Thailand and 426 metric tonnes of rice from India as of July — amounting to less than 6,000 metric tonnes in 2018.

The CBN spokesman said this is against the 400,000 metric tonnes being bandied around due to “expected demand by politicians for election campaigns”.

He attributed the reduced imports to “concerted efforts” by the ministry of agriculture and rural development and the interventions of the CBN.

Okorafor said the ministry and the CBN had been collaborating to reduce the volume of rice importation through the “rice revolution”.

He explained that the apex bank had not allocated any foreign exchange for the importation of rice in 2018, adding that the imports from Thailand and India were done on “not-valid-for-forex basis”.

“The figures being bandied in certain quarters were based on unrealistic assumptions such as satellite mapping of farms, expected demand by politicians for election campaigns and expected losses from flooding,” the statement quoted Okorafor as saying.

“All of these led to unauthentic conclusions that the country had imported or could import 400,000 more metric tonnes.”
https://www.thecable.ng/cbn-rice-importation-reduced-in-2018

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