With all the efforts of the present administration to encourage the cultivation, production and consumption of locally produced rice, one reoccurring complaints from Nigerians is the presence of stones in the rice.

Many people will even accept to pay more for a foreign rice over a cheaper local ones. Some dubious marketers have even gone to the extent or rebagging local rice as foreign.

I wish to call on the government Local, States and the Federal to invest in establishing state-of-the-art modern Rice Mills. Even private businesses can own one, especially in States with rice farming. Also existing Mills needs to be upgraded immediately.

I believe a well processed local Nigerian Rice will encourage patronage and consumption.

Proudly Nigerian.

Nice suggestions.. FG should also try to regulate the price of the local rice..

Enough of everything foreign foods..

The day a brother told me that the way they preserved the normal Turkey we buy is not different from embalming dead bodies .. I fear

A conscious drive for continuous improvement will get us there hopefully......

True tho...

much ado about rice.

@ op, nice one. Buhari try for this border closure. Let's encourage our own.

This is my only problem with local rice.

Who told you the local ones are cheap? Keep deceiving people

Kudos to buhari on diz one

that's right

This is a wrong time for all these o ooo olohun...
enh hah... go and marry now I want to marry, Buhari close border and everything tight... enh.. and I don announce date even book for hall.... Rice dey bride family requirement, even we groom's family will cook 2 bags... vegetable oil dey.... why all these at this time God.... Buhari pity me na

If I may ask, cant FG establish Rice Mlls?

I wish to call on the government Local, States and the Federal to invest in establishing state-of-the-art modern Rice Mills. Even private businesses can own one, especially in States with rice farming. Also existing Mills needs to be upgraded immediately. 

This is a very good call by the OP.
It is always good to see we still have reasonable and positive people like this on this forum.
This is one of the way a nation will move forward.
Not like some people that bitterness and frustration is the order of the day in their miserable lives and are willfully blind to see any good thing.

Thumbs up OP.
Nigeria will be great again in our lifetime.
We are on the right track.

God bless you.
God bless Nigeria.

EBEk101:
Kudos to buhari on diz one

Thumbs up

The way Nigerians talk about Rice eehn!!!



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bareal:
Who told you the local ones are cheap? Keep deceiving ppeople

Gee, I wonder

PROPAGANDA

The government isn't serious atal, how difficult and expensive can it be for them to go into rice production and make things easier for the country

Omo,the stones be like rock,
And dont cook the rice until its done,
The stuff wud mesh up,

I taya for the rice ooo

I dont understand Nigerians' obsession with rice! Eat other food. Beans is cheap now, eat it more .

netpro:
With all the efforts of the present administration to encourage the cultivation, production and consumption of locally produced rice, one reoccurring complaints from Nigerians is the presence of stones in the rice.

Many people will even accept to pay more for a foreign rice over a cheaper local ones. Some dubious marketers have even gone to the extent or rebagging local rice as foreign.

I wish to call on the government Local, States and the Federal to invest in establishing state-of-the-art modern Rice Mills. Even private businesses can own one, especially in States with rice farming. Also existing Mills needs to be upgraded immediately.

I believe a well processed local Nigerian Rice will encourage patronage and consumption.

Proudly Nigerian.

How bout plastic rice, it will go a long way

EBEk101:
Kudos to buhari on diz one

There is no kudos until we are self sustainable. How can you close the border when we can't produce enough consumption metric tons for the populace?

Very timely. I was in an eatery yesterday and this was a major complaint about Nigerian rice- stones. If we must consume locally patriotically, then quality should not be overlooked.

wristbangle:


There is no kudos until we are self sustainable. How can you close the border when we can't produce enough consumption metric tons for the populace?

how can we produce enough if we dont close the border? Its like the question of the chicken or the egg, which comes first?

Moreover, the border closure has nothing to do with banning rice. Rice has been banned for long. its only smugglers that are having a field day smuggling it in. Moreso once the smuggling continue people would not be serious in increasing the cultivation because there wont be the demand fot it.

I have experienced more than two perboiled made in Nigeria rice....one from Olam Rice, Mama something ....was the brand name....I've forgotten the second... They are good rice and not different from the usual imported rice

netpro:
With all the efforts of the present administration to encourage the cultivation, production and consumption of locally produced rice, one reoccurring complaints from Nigerians is the presence of stones in the rice.

Many people will even accept to pay more for a foreign rice over a cheaper local ones. Some dubious marketers have even gone to the extent or rebagging local rice as foreign.

I wish to call on the government Local, States and the Federal to invest in establishing state-of-the-art modern Rice Mills. Even private businesses can own one, especially in States with rice farming. Also existing Mills needs to be upgraded immediately.

I believe a well processed local Nigerian Rice will encourage patronage and consumption.

Proudly Nigerian.

When I asked for local rice to be shown to me. Fear catch me. I told the guy, o boy. Me no fit chop this one o.

Hush08181801636:
If I may ask, cant FG establish Rice Mlls?

Yes, but it better not. Cos as in everything govt , corruption will creep in

The 2 bags we bought in august were not different from foreign.. The caterer was amazed when she heard it's not foreign. I don't know where people dey see stone rice.

Ok