BAG OF RICE TO BE SELL N40,000 BY DECEMBER - MINISTER
Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has lamented on bag of rice hit N40,000 by December if Nigerians didn't start producing rice
Lokpobiri on his speech this weekend during a town hall meeting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
Said,
“Let it be known to you, we spend about $22bn a year importing food into Nigeria. We know how many more dollars they bought and that is why you see the price of rice going up. Price of rice was N12,000 some months back, its now about N26,000 and if we don’t start producing, by December it could be N40,000."
He also said;
“Rice matures in three months. So, this is a wake up call for Bayelsa people to take the four farms we have seriously. The federal government has four farms in the state in our records."
He lamented that states in the Niger Delta had yet to give priority to agriculture the way the North-West states such as Kebbi, Jigawa, Kano as well as other states like Lagos, Ebonyi, Anambra had done.
“Rice matures in three months. So, this is a wake up call for Bayelsa people to take the four farms we have seriously. The federal government has four farms in the state in our records."
He lamented that states in the Niger Delta had yet to give priority to agriculture the way the North-West states such as Kebbi, Jigawa, Kano as well as other states like Lagos, Ebonyi, Anambra had done.
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