Ishilove:

There is everything wrong with it. Why must we buy it a high price in the first place? The whole idea of limiting importation of foreign rice is to boost the local production. It makes no sense that we are buying the locally made rice at a higher price when we can buy the foreign counterpart at a lower. They need to give the farmers more incentives to produce at a lower cost instead of making policies that is making life harder than it already is for the average Nigerian.

do u even know that local rice was cheaper than foreign rice before d border closure? do u even know that most northerners eat Nigerian stone-free rice before all these rice wahala?

Calm down, Madam...... price of local rice will come down once it saturates d market.

odave:


Abeg what's so difficult for Nigeria farmers to get a better seed from wherever they can, plant here, parboil and give us good rice? Everything na rocket science for naija.

Imagine using local rice to make fried rice, lol

I've tried it with Mama Pride by Olam foods. It was nice!

sulaak:


Man shall not live on bread alone.....Matthew 4:4. Nigerians consumers can also eat Garri and Yam.

And plantain, beans, sweet potatoes, cocoyam, elubo (amala) etc

We live in animal kingdom where anything goes. The government cannot close border or ban importation of highly demanded good outrightly without putting measures in place to meet it's demand.
First, it was OBJ regime that first ban importation of rice, used cars and used clothes without providing alternatives for the teaming population of Nigeria.
What did we gain from that exercise, nothing, absolute nothing. Demand for these products made the importers to use Benin ports to import these goods and smuggle them back to Nigeria through our porous borders.
Yaradua took over and relaxed OBJ ban but the importers keep using Benin Port for their importation as is cheaper for them.
The truth is that Nigerian government is the problem not Benin or Niger you don't mess around with these countries policies but Nigerian government are never sincere in their policies especially when it concerns the citizens that's why most people flaunts government policies especially when it comes to the public.
All of you hailing this administration on border closure are jus being narrow minded, we should be demanding government commitment in helping to make the production of the banned goods possible, cheaper and affordable.

Midas01:
Dude, I was born and bred in PH and I never ever hear Rukpakulusi for my life.

then you are not a portharcourt boy....simple as that!

By the way, we should all remember that goods can still be imported through our ports and by air. Only land borders are closed. Those who export from Thailand should send directly to our ports instead of channelling through Togo/Benin for smuggling into Nigeria. I don't see why this is too much to ask.

Going through the posts have me another dimension in viewing Nigerians.

As far as other countries are hit hard by this decision they don't care even though the policy is a double-edged sword.

RTSC:
If all those Rice was produced in Nigeria.
Imagine the money that would flow to the people.

So many countries are eating from our foolishness.

No more.

You get the drift
This is the major reason for underdevelopment and poverty in Africa
We use our scarce foreign earnings to enrich other countries

Do they know how much dollars CBN uses weekly to maintain Naira rate stability
If Naira is not defended
It will lose value
Because we are an importing Nation, importing almost everything Nigerian importers will be seeking dollars to buy goods at the international markets
To get dollars they exchange it with Naira
And because Naira is chasing the dollar. It depreciates

In addition our borders are too porous due to land connection
Benin republic then imports through there ocean and smuggle into Nigeria
Which is double wickedness
Even government loose revenue on top


Government should keep the closure till indefinite simple
Its total bleed for the economy
Until our neighbours go get sense.

grandstar:


The government is the cause of the smuggling. The import duty is a merciless 60% hence the smuggling.

Yes the import duty should be high
To discourage import and encourage local production

grandstar:


The government is the cause of the smuggling. The import duty is a merciless 60% hence the smuggling.

Yes the import duty should be high
To discourage import and encourage local production
Government is Right

isthatso:


try and be patriotic for once, America is a great country because the average American will always choose the American product over imported even when the foreign one is better. Must you eat rice?

No body said shutting down the border is a bad thing. The federal Government should also assist the local farmers to get the required seeds for plantation.

nakaman:
so this country is this powerful

Are you really asking?

Do you know what it means to have 200 Million consumers, exporting employment and prosperity to India, Thailand, and others?

Afamed:

My brother no pain no gain. If ordinary foods items( Rice and Chicken) at this 21century, we are still relying on importation, then I think our existence as a nation is threaten.

Over reliance on importation is highly dangerous boko haram insurgency drags for years due to arm emargo placed on Nigeria by the US.

Win12345:
We live in animal kingdom where anything goes. The government cannot close border or ban importation of highly demanded good outrightly without putting measures in place to meet it's demand.
First, it was OBJ regime that first ban importation of rice, used cars and used clothes without providing alternatives for the teaming population of Nigeria.
What did we gain from that exercise, nothing, absolute nothing. Demand for these products made the importers to use Benin ports to import these goods and smuggle them back to Nigeria through our porous borders.
Yaradua took over and relaxed OBJ ban but the importers keep using Benin Port for their importation as is cheaper for them.
The truth is that Nigerian government is the problem not Benin or Niger you don't mess around with these countries policies but Nigerian government are never sincere in their policies especially when it concerns the citizens that's why most people flaunts government policies especially when it comes to the public.
All of you hailing this administration on border closure are jus being narrow minded, we should be demanding government commitment in helping to make the production of the banned goods possible, cheaper and affordable.

There is NO ban on imported rice through our ports. Always, always
.do your research before posting. Imported rice cannot land Nigeria below N15,500 per bag. That's why some guys are smuggling. If everyone imports rice through OFFICIAL and legal points of entry, Nigeria will make a minimum of N350bn in duties.

larryking540:

Bro how much is minimum wage? then ask urself if Wat u just type make sense,,,, keep on deceiving urself that local rice is more nutritional than the foreign rice,,,,

enjoy ur local rice and visit hospital for Appendix check up by January 1st

Lie my Dad eats Abakaliki Rice which is much healthier and nutritious than foreign Rice. Nigerian Rice is much healthier
Ask nutritionists
Most of those foreign Rice are trash nutrition Wise
The foreign Rice that's nutritious are those high end imported Rice they sell in big supermarkets
That's the one many big men buy
Or high end restaurants like some Chinese restaurants also sell those expensive foreign Rice, when you eat those ones your body will even testify that you ate quality healthy food but na money make am
The ordinary man can't afford them

You are not making sense I repeat, there is only one MUMU contri everybodi knows the only MUMU country now the only certified sh1thole

Zizza:


I know your country is mumu that's the MUMUDOM that's established but you're not exempt from the rot of your country's ineptitude.... Ozour

grandstar:


There's nothing wrong in importing rice and chicken if the fundamentals calls for it.

Does Nigeria have comparative advantage in rice production? Capital no. That is why rice can be imported into Benin Republic, transported all the way to Niger Republic, smuggled into Nigeria and profits are still made. Production has never been Nigeria's problem but the lack of comparative advantage.

The British tried to encourage local farmers to plant rice but they were unenthusiastic. Their preference were cocoa, palm oil, rubber and so on. Those were the areas Nigeria had comparative advantage in then and the farmers and the country flourished and the country still hacks back to those days.

It has been estimated that Nigeria can earn as much as $2b just from exporting sheabutter alone. Snails if fully developed can earn as much as $2b. Thailand gets as much as $1.8b a year from farmed shrimp. The country is neglecting what it is good at and pouring resources where it sucks at.

You do best in what you're good in and fare badly in what you're bad at.

Nigeria has no comparative advantage/ production for Rice? You must definitely be typing far away in Asia

I just though of a theory regarding this border closure

What if these herdsmen ravaging our farms were truly foreigners bent on sabotaging our local food production to keep us dependent on the import market?

I don't know, just thinking out loud

All those yeye Indians that dump their fake drugs in Nigeria and still insult and maltreat Nigerians who're working for them!

I'm so loving this border closure mehn!

VeeVeeMyLuv:
they are smiling to the bank by increasing price from 15k to 50k abi?
Yeye dey smell.

For God sake where did you buy your rice at N50?

Soon we will hear killer rice on rampage... One aboki will use otapiapia to preserve rice.... Abeg open border jor...
People say they re snuggling rice.... Wot is smuggle.. did the govt ban importation of rice ? So why call people doin der business smugglers? Well m here.... Dis tasteless short grain rice Nigerian is selling ... We shall see.. d rice sef lack nutrient .... The other day na color pink grain of rice I see inside the one derica of rice I buy

Jman06:
All those yeye Indians that dump their fake drugs in Nigeria and still insult and maltreat Nigerians who're working for them!

I'm so loving this border closure mehn!

because u don't do business there na

RICHOLAC:
Yes. I also heard Innoson Group and some others have looked in the direction of large Rice production using world class machineries. We will get used to our products over time and just like you said, foreign investors would step in.

See brother mi
Agribusiness is a multi billion dollars business
More lucrative than any other commodities
And it require plenty money
Last year I was in the east for two months
I heard Coscharis invested over 200million dollar's in agriculture
Some couple of weeks ago he commissioned his mill in Anambra
He built mechanized irrigation system


That's the thing with big men
They have eyes for opportunity
They keep on taking advantage
And getting richer
Our population is rapidly expanding
Anyone that keys into agriculture now will rip huge gain in the future
Even me I am setting up investment in agriculture too
Looking for best way to attract funding or giving my partners equity

larryking540:

let's be honest, is the local rice even cheap,,, we just day shout, like say anything made in Nigeria is cheap,,, u expect u and i to feed on rice Dat has stones that cannot dissolve when it goes into the system, last last na hospital person go day day battle appendix Abi....

Bollocks! Here's another one. What caves or high-brow towers do some of you live in that you are not aware that there are refined, stone-free Nigerian rice brands in the country which have been doing well? So many smart phones, so many uniformed people. Some of you just loooooooove to complain. On and on and on about what you are obviously so ignorant about. Seek knowledge first.
Funny thing is that some of you have been eating made in Nigerian rice for years but are non-the-wiser since anything in a package is referred to by you as "foreign rice." Learn.

We are really giant of Africa, now they we value this fantastically corrupt Nigeria,

odave:
Don't forget to add Nigeria too

Lol

Kossym:
Soon we will hear killer rice on rampage... One aboki will use otapiapia to preserve rice.... Abeg open border jor...
People say they re snuggling rice.... Wot is smuggle.. did the govt ban importation of rice ? So why call people doin der business smugglers? Well m here.... Dis tasteless short grain rice Nigerian is selling ... We shall see.. d rice sef lack nutrient .... The other day na color pink grain of rice I see inside the one derica of rice I buy

Another fool spotted. Show us a picture of the pink rice. Nigerian processed rice that has been praised by experts as being sweet and more nutritious than it's foreign counterparts? What sort of people am I interacting with here sef? Are y'all still toddlers or do you actually cater for yourselves? Cos it seems non of you has been to a market to get any of these stuff before. If you are a dependent, ask your parents which rice they buy before coming online to spill some audio money shît.

djon78:


Lie my Dad eats Abakaliki Rice which is much healthier and nutritious than foreign Rice. Nigerian Rice is much healthier
Ask nutritionists
Most of those foreign Rice are trash nutrition Wise
The foreign Rice that's nutritious are those high end imported Rice they sell in big supermarkets
That's the one many big men buy
Or high end restaurants like some Chinese restaurants also sell those expensive foreign Rice, when you eat those ones your body will even testify that you ate quality healthy food but na money make am
The ordinary man can't afford them

knowing nigerians, the foreign rice is probably overstock/disposed .thats how we do

GreenArrow1:


Another fool spotted. Show us a picture of the pink rice. Nigerian processed rice that has been praised by experts as being sweet and more nutritious than it's foreign counterparts? What sort of people am I interacting with here sef? Are y'all still toddlers or do you actually cater for yourselves? Cos it seems non of you has been to a market to get any of these stuff before. If you are a dependent, ask your parents which rice they buy before coming online to spill some audio money shît.

Another Fulani he goat sighted ... Mayb u don't know how finish ua .... Now let me tell u... Ua d toddler here.... Goan ask the woman ua calling mum ( das if she is still alive) who ur daddy is

MUMUdom:
Fuckeduppedness There is only one MUMU country

u go soon chop ban. Petrodollax see as u no fit survive a day without Nairaland.
I go call Mynd44 to ban this account as well.
U go open another account to continue your insult. Until u behave well we will continue to ban your accounts.

With this development, I believed that our population is grace not liability

Oh