A lot of Nigerians r so foolish n lame God forbid, ask urself wat is d price of rice in d market we r d highess producer of rice n we still buy it very expensive God wat kind of ppl r in dis country see dem celebrating as if they buy one bag for 7k, how is dis affecting d common man in d Street oooo na wa ooo. Oma shehhh ooooo

Dottore:

If you are wicked to your siblings and kinsmen why are u wialso wicked to yourself since you know all these things and u are still in Nigeria. Are u so much in love with poverty?

I tire oooo

lexy2014:


It's true how? How can we b producing 4million tonnes& all we c in market stalls is Thailand?

Keep kwayet my brother, even our family farm alone produce over hundred bags of rice and thats even only during the raining season,

There are companies that immediately buy off the harvest especially if you planted good varieties like FARO 44 or jamila

Funny enough if it was a negative ranking they will blame Buhari but now it is a good and positive news they are wailing and see nothing good about it.


If it was a list of negative thing where Nigeria is placed at number 20 out of 20 in Africa they will blame Buhari.

Some of you don't have conscience and hatred will consume you

Samunique:
And........ where is the rice ?

Gandolla's belle

weldone ooooooo.....I juba for you Buharists.

fake rice.....continue.

Jiang:


Keep kwayet my brother, even our family farm alone produce over hundred bags of rice and thats even only during the raining season,

There are companies that immediately buy off the harvest especially if you planted good varieties like FARO 44 or jamila

If I don't keep quiet, what will happen? I believe I have a right 2 my opinion just as u do. If u don't like my opinion, there's nothing I can do about it.

D report said 4 million tonnes. And if there's 4 million tonnes of rice in Nigeria, it will b in market stalls. So take a stroll to a market& sample d starks of rice in stalls& c if its Thailand or Nigerian.

Which companies "buy off d harvests"? Can u pls give their names? Do these same companies buy off d harvests from ur family farm? Is ur produce branded? For how long has ur family been producing rice?

DesChyko:
Oshey!!
Up Naija.. Baddest rice producer!!

Reality Check:
Click Like if you still buy foreign rice.
Click Share if you have never seen sacks of this our Naija rice in your local markets.
Quote if you see and eat them anywhere here in Nigeria

The bag of rice in my house is from kebbi state ~ full of sand and a few stones, it swells fast. Eating is not inspiring but oh well we are tightening our belt.

Charmingrascal:


You are seeing foreign rice in the market because some saboteurs don't want Nigeria to work.
They don't want to see a self sufficient Nigeria for their own selfish reasons, but we must get there

Amen

lexy2014:


If I don't keep quiet, what will happen? I believe I have a right 2 my opinion just as u do. If u don't like my opinion, there's nothing I can do about it.

D report said 4 million tonnes. And if there's 4 million tonnes of rice in Nigeria, it will b in market stalls. So take a stroll to a market& sample d starks of rice in stalls& c if its Thailand or Nigerian.

Which companies "buy off d harvests"? Can u pls give their names? Do these same companies buy off d harvests from ur family farm? Is ur produce branded? For how long has ur family been producing rice?

Here in Bauchi there is Local rice everywhere, they even have a location close to the palace which only different varieties of local rice are sold especially during the raining season, in gombe state, bajoga L.G.A also has a similar place every market days on Thursdays, local rice are brought in, different qualities & colors, You can choose any you want.

As long as you pay us money, we go sell it to you even if you represent Lucifer, just send ur agent, pay money & pack ur goods, We have being into farming for more than one generation. And I personally intend to make it bigger, better & more modernized In sha Allah.

Farming will never distract you from ur day job, so it's good hustle

lexy2014:


If I don't keep quiet, what will happen? I believe I have a right 2 my opinion just as u do. If u don't like my opinion, there's nothing I can do about it.

D report said 4 million tonnes. And if there's 4 million tonnes of rice in Nigeria, it will b in market stalls. So take a stroll to a market& sample d starks of rice in stalls& c if its Thailand or Nigerian.

Which companies "buy off d harvests"? Can u pls give their names? Do these same companies buy off d harvests from ur family farm? Is ur produce branded? For how long has ur family been producing rice?

Examples of companies which buy off rice from farms include but are not limited to Olam (Big conglomerate which not only produces Nigerian rice but also exports to other countries. Google them), Miva Rice (Serving North Central states), Oracle Food Processing (Which just came on board with over 100000 hectares of rice farms and capacity to buy from others, located at the industrial Layout, Makurdi). The above listed companies are just those dominant in the middle belt. I have a 3 hectare cassava farm at the moment. Will be going into rice (Farro44 to be specific) and soya-beans production once the rains set in this year. See ehn, it's not a Buharists vs Atikulators nonsense going on. People are making money in this sector so a lot of us are also keying in. I'm a building Engineer but I also have farms. It's not rocket science.

The rice only exists on papers
Until the price of a bag of rice slashed to N5,000 i wont believe

Trendy247:
Yet we can't afford it

that's the problem. before one could get a bag of foreign rice for as low as 8k. Our Locally made rice should cost less than that amount . Last time I bought made in Nigeria rice, it cost me 8k for half bag o.

GreenArrow2:


Examples of companies which buy off rice from farms include but are not limited to Olam (Big conglomerate which not only produces Nigerian rice but also exports to other countries. Google them), Miva Rice (Serving North Central states), Oracle Food Processing (Which just came on board with over 100000 hectares of rice farms and capacity to buy from others, located at the industrial Layout, Makurdi). The above listed companies are just those dominant in the middle belt. I have a 3 hectare cassava farm at the moment. Will be going into rice (Farro44 to be specific) and soya-beans production once the rains set in this year. See ehn, it's not a Buharists vs Atikulators nonsense going on. People are making money in this sector so a lot of us are also keying in. I'm a building Engineer but I also have farms. It's not rocket science.

Am not talking about buharists or atiku fans pls. I only said if we have 4million tonnes of rice in Nigeria, we will c it in d market. If u follow d companies u mentioned, u will find out that they have been in rice b4 2015. Am well aware that many Nigerians have been producing rice long b4 2015. Am not just comfortable with people trying to use it as a political tool

lexy2014:


Am not talking about buharists or atiku fans pls. I only said if we have 4million tonnes of rice in Nigeria, we will c it in d market. I asked u when did u guys start producing rice? If u follow d companies u mentioned, u will find out that they have been in rice b4 2015. Am well aware that many Nigerians have been producing rice long b4 2015. Am not just comfortable with people trying to use it as a political tool

Last year alone, Kebbi State celebrated crossing over the 1 million metric tone production benchmark. This year is going to be almost double that. And that's for Kebbi state alone. Ebonyi state is fast increasing capacity too. I don't know where you reside but, in these parts, seeing foreign rice in the markets is the strange thing. There's a variety of stone-free (Nigerian rice) on EVERY stand in EVERY stall you can find. The reason why some of the big Thailand rice producers have started opening processing plants in Kaduna and Kebbi (please google it), is that they are beginning to recognize the increase in capacity of our local production.

Joromi12:
except for ofada i have never seen local rice in the market na

u no de go market be that.

I eat local rice wey make sense here.

We shall get there.... There's nothing as profitable as agriculture.
U plant one seed of beans, that one seed go return 30 or more to u.

I hope it's true and not propaganda. If it's true, then great news. Time to overtake China and their fake rice

Jiang:


Here in Bauchi there is Local rice everywhere, they even have a location close to the palace which only different varieties of local rice are sold especially during the raining season, in gombe state, bajoga L.G.A also has a similar place every market days on Thursdays, local rice are brought in, different qualities & colors, You can choose any you want.

As long as you pay us money, we go sell it to you even if you represent Lucifer, just send ur agent, pay money & pack ur goods, We have being into farming for more than one generation. And I personally intend to make it bigger, better & more modernized In sha Allah.

Farming will never distract you from ur day job, so it's good hustle

U have said what I wanted. U guys have been farming rice 4 ages. That means there has always been rice in nigeria. D problem is right now, d govt is trying to make it look like we just started producing. In Edo, in ebonyi there has always been rice. That's d point am trying to make. So all this statistics they are giving are just political. So when u go 2d market, u c more of imported rice. That's d truth. But local rice is sold in basins side by side& this has always been d practice. That's y I said if we have 4million tonnes in circulation, it will b more visible. D problem with rice farming is d same problem with agriculture generally. So when d govt just says rice has improved, I wonder how

donvicky2007:


Those Thailand rice you are buying in the market 70% of them are local rice bagged in foreign rice bag, that is how rice sellers make large profits because they know that we preferred foreign rice to local rice, moreover you can't distinguished some local rice from their foreign counterpart.

Lol. How old are you?

chidibond:
Great

Modified:
I know banker colleagues who resigned and went into rice cultivation. This is one area even opponents of this govt can attest to. Unfortunately most of our grains are being smuggled to other African countries for higher prices. I believe the Agricultural revolution is real and only a Buhari would have taken the hard decisions necessary for such growth.

Things will only get better.

Trying to avoid partisan politics, but this rice policy was started by under the ATA (Agricultural Transformation Agenda) of the Jonathan government by then Agric Minister Adesina (who is now the AfDB President). Now, carry on...

Wow, surprised China, Thailand or some Asian country isn't #1.

Highest in Africa yet rice remains far more expensive than when we weren't producing.mtcheeeeew

mariadebebes:
Wow, surprised China, Thailand or some Asian country isn't #1.

Even headline hard you to understand. Did it state in the world?

pls where is the rice because ayam not understanding

Samunique:
And........ where is the rice ?

ask the chronic smugglers

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria

SAI BABA 4+4
DIVERSIFICATION IS THE KEY

Dannyset:


http://thenationonlineng.net/nigeria-overtakes-egypt-as-largest-rice-producer-in-africa/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

and we dey buy am high

otokx:


The bag of rice in my house is from kebbi state ~ full of sand and a few stones, it swells fast. Eating is not inspiring but oh well we are tightening our belt.

On the sand/stone part; it's something we can definitelt improve on so long as it is heavily patronized. My main concern is that I've not even seen one to buy, as foreign rice is getting as expensive as

9jaArea:
Mama gold is a 100% Nigerian rice planted, processed and packaged in Nigeria. There are other brands in the Matket that are Nigerian made.

You don't mean it??

But it's being marketed as foreign rice..

Samunique:
And........ where is the rice ?

I think he asked a genuine question here cos rice is still quite expensive compared to pre-Buhari era. But what I see is that the rice produced here is probably shipped to Cotonou and then shipped back to Nigeria for higher gains. These things happen.

Is Nigeria exporting rice ?

Dannyset:


http://thenationonlineng.net/nigeria-overtakes-egypt-as-largest-rice-producer-in-africa/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

I don't understand the celebration. We became the largest producer of rice in Africa only because Egypt dropped its 4.3m tons annual production by 40%. We didn't overtake them, so please thank Egypt for stepping down and not Buhari.

Also, see this simple yearly production summary below. You would see that rice production in Nigeria has been on a consistent increase since 1960. This is attributable to one major factor: Population Growth!

Everything is should not be about politics.

Market Year Production Unit of Measure Growth Rate
1960 239 (1000 MT) NA
1961 229 (1000 MT) -4.18 %
1962 246 (1000 MT) 7.42 %
1963 202 (1000 MT) -17.89 %
1964 269 (1000 MT) 33.17 %
1965 236 (1000 MT) -12.27 %
1966 270 (1000 MT) 14.41 %
1967 260 (1000 MT) -3.70 %
1968 249 (1000 MT) -4.23 %
1969 257 (1000 MT) 3.21 %
1970 284 (1000 MT) 10.51 %
1971 307 (1000 MT) 8.10 %
1972 310 (1000 MT) 0.98 %
1973 342 (1000 MT) 10.32 %
1974 348 (1000 MT) 1.75 %
1975 390 (1000 MT) 12.07 %
1976 406 (1000 MT) 4.10 %
1977 412 (1000 MT) 1.48 %
1978 394 (1000 MT) -4.37 %
1979 372 (1000 MT) -5.58 %
1980 523 (1000 MT) 40.59 %
1981 579 (1000 MT) 10.71 %
1982 648 (1000 MT) 11.92 %
1983 607 (1000 MT) -6.33 %
1984 579 (1000 MT) -4.61 %
1985 680 (1000 MT) 17.44 %
1986 630 (1000 MT) -7.35 %
1987 1184 (1000 MT) 87.94 %
1988 1249 (1000 MT) 5.49 %
1989 1982 (1000 MT) 58.69 %
1990 1500 (1000 MT) -24.32 %
1991 1911 (1000 MT) 27.40 %
1992 1956 (1000 MT) 2.35 %
1993 1839 (1000 MT) -5.98 %
1994 1456 (1000 MT) -20.83 %
1995 1752 (1000 MT) 20.33 %
1996 1873 (1000 MT) 6.91 %
1997 1961 (1000 MT) 4.70 %
1998 1965 (1000 MT) 0.20 %
1999 1966 (1000 MT) 0.05 %
2000 1979 (1000 MT) 0.66 %
2001 1651 (1000 MT) -16.57 %
2002 1757 (1000 MT) 6.42 %
2003 1870 (1000 MT) 6.43 %
2004 2000 (1000 MT) 6.95 %
2005 2140 (1000 MT) 7.00 %
2006 2546 (1000 MT) 18.97 %
2007 2008 (1000 MT) -21.13 %
2008 2632 (1000 MT) 31.08 %
2009 2234 (1000 MT) -15.12 %
2010 2818 (1000 MT) 26.14 %
2011 2906 (1000 MT) 3.12 %
2012 3423 (1000 MT) 17.79 %
2013 3038 (1000 MT) -11.25 %
2014 3782 (1000 MT) 24.49 %
2015 3941 (1000 MT) 4.20 %
2016 4410 (1000 MT) 11.90 %
2017 4662 (1000 MT) 5.71 %
2018 4788 (1000 MT) 2.70 %