Rice Pyramids: Addressing Obstacles Hindering Low Price Of Local Rice

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Since the unveiling of the Abuja mega rice pyramids penultimate week, many Nigerians have expressed concern about the high price of the locally milled

With this development, experts expressed hope that a sustained high production of rice and effort to address challenges hindering low price of rice should become the next line of action by stakeholders in the agricultural sector to push the product importation to the brink and flatten the price.He said, “Thailand alone exported 1.3 million metric tons of rice to Nigeria in 2014.

According to him, the check points were created by some youth who mount roads block mostly in rural communities where they collect illegal tax on agricultural produce. In his reaction a professor at the Department of Agronomy, Ahmedu Bello University, Zaria, Salihu Adamu Dadari who spoke to LEADERSHIP said that federal government must provide more subsidised input to farmers to drive more production and reduce the price of rice.

 

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