tokrizy:
Tuwo rice


D rice go come make u feel as if u no sabi cook..tcheeeew

Empredboy:
you as a Nigerian which advantage have you taken on it?

Gaddafi1:
Necessity as they say is the mother of invention. The recent closure of the broader will make Nigerians go into large scale and mechanized farming to cash in on the high cost of these products.
This will eventually bring the price down and make them available. I support closure of the boarder.

Gaddafi1:
Necessity as they say is the mother of invention. The recent closure of the broader will make Nigerians go into large scale and mechanized farming to cash in on the high cost of these products.
This will eventually bring the price down and make them available. I support closure of the boarder.

kingjudecy:
I had expected you'll highlight the results of your research on the probable indicators that has caused the hike in price of local rice rather quick to talking about budget and supplementary budget.

shigoslim:
Is Nigeria better off in comparative cost of rice production when compared to Thailand and India?
There are too many misplaced of priorities in our country. Instead of closing border why can the governmen place tax or tariff on rice importation from neighboring countries to generate more revenue or better still allow economic integration with Thailand and India on rice production through exchanging of what we are better off over what this two countries are worse off.
Just like USA and China on soya beans and many others commodities.

Racoon:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/10/12/border-closure-exposes-nigerias-deficiency-in-local-rice-production-2/amp/

Gaddafi1:
Necessity as they say is the mother of invention. The recent closure of the broader will make Nigerians go into large scale and mechanized farming to cash in on the high cost of these products.
This will eventually bring the price down and make them available. I support closure of the boarder.

olalat:

Some people take pleasure in sounding so intelligent while they actually sound foolish in the real sense. How on earth can a government tax communities that are smuggled I to the country. Instead of many of us to see opportunities in the present economic policy, we idly sit and talk talk and talk unproductive.

Iogobenz:

Area4area and co,come and see o.
Self sufficiency kee you there!

sonnie10:
If you want to be sure of eating rice this Christmas, you better buy now and store it somewhere. Rice might not even be available in the market anymore by December.

plaindealer:







So, who is growing the local rice people are buying and eating all over Nigeria? Ghost farmers?

Enemy of Nigeria.

PMB gave coscharis billions to established rice farm and rice mill, people like you were shouting igbo amaka all over the place and you as usual abused and insulted the rest of Nigeria even though the funds that built the farm came from the rest of Nigeria and PMB's good wisdom.

So, have they chased coscharis away from his farm too?

There's got to be more to you than hatred, tribalism and bitterness.

plaindealer:
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Instead of making hatred and bitterness your only portion in life, try to read and keep up with news, current affairs and issues in your own village.

madenigga:
Nigeria is already self sufficient its just that people are naturally greedy. Since they closed the border they assumed a monopoly and increased there prices then blame the border closure for it?

If the Fg can regulate the prices of this things it would help.

boxypane:
I believe this has exposed the fake report of NIRSAL to the FG, on how Nigeria has attained food sustainability.
They can lie for Africa

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.?

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. .

RichBoy247:


I thought Goatluck Jonathan and Adesina Akinwunmi the AfDB President have produced rice to feed the whole of Africa

Slurity:
must we eat rice?

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. .

sonnie10:
If you want to be sure of eating rice this Christmas, you better buy now and store it somewhere. Rice might not even be available in the market anymore by December.

Gaddafi1:
Necessity as they say is the mother of invention. The recent closure of the broader will make Nigerians go into large scale and mechanized farming to cash in on the high cost of these products.
This will eventually bring the price down and make them available. I support closure of the boarder.

ehissi:


What are you assuming upandan about? Based on stats, as at 2004, the daily demand for rice in lagos state alone is 800,000 bags per day (other states of the federation not stated).

That alone is 40,000 metric tonnes per day. Nobody can deliver that much rice at the moment, even the current MD of the AfDB, who was agric minister under Jonathan could only boast of servicing 50% of Lagos daily demand, by tactically using fertilizer subsidy networks groups and that was when we had only boko haram.

Now we have ISIS/ISIL/ISWAP, fulani herdsmen, Zamfara bandits, a toxic hydra headed collabo that guarantees insecurity is now a norm on farming routes, with very few people going to farm for fear of never returning.

Insecurity challenges for now, dissuade farming so where will the rice come from? Thats why closing the border was a dumb move, as far as rice is concerned......

Gaddafi1:


At least we can start from somewhere and progress from there.

Buckubuck:

Why won't nirsal generate fake report when they pack APC people full there? An agency that should have thoroughbred agric economics/extension manning the place is overflowing with APC nitwits cankerworm. Moronic people