djon78:




Actually this border closure will create demand for local Rice
The demand will attract more investor's
Plenty producers will have to innovate and improve on there Rice quality and pricing to attract customers

The consumers are better off

By buying local rice at 18,000?

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.

Sound argument. Only thing I would add for clarity is that importers of rice and other products need to pay fair duties so the government can generate revenue for investment in key areas that will continue to improve our competitiveness. Smuggling through the border must be eradicated at all costs as it makes the comparative advantage math unfair.

okeyumez:
Big countries adopted this measure before they became strong Nations
Let us make sacrifices now and build our nation and stop lamenting
Buhari is right this time
Let the idiotic, hypocritical Igbos keep lamenting
Nigeria must get better

You were making sense until you decided to go stupid.

Ishilove:

By buying local rice at 18,000?

what will the market cost of rice be if they were not smuggling it?

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.

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....

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.

AlphaStyles:
U all are smiling right don't worry u will start seeing the effects of border closure very soon keep laughing when border closure starts biting u it won't be funny any more

Soooo we should open it down so that just any trash can come in?
Enemy of progress!!
Open your mouth down let bats and rats make their nests there now...

Rubbish and ingredients

Ishilove:

By buying local rice at 18,000?

What is wrong buying our own product at high price?

MisterGrace:


You were making sense until you decided to go stupid.

don't mind him... no body is angry because the border is locked up,,, but because there is no enough local rice to go round the nation ND as such it becomes expensive
how will u buy a bag of local rice for 18k. then how much is minimum wage?

we are not producing enough then u quickly import foreign rice into the government warehouse then close the border quickly because u want to make money for the pooor citizens heads.... that is wickedness, ..

if the rice cheap self e for good we for still happy chew the stone way day inside

Obiwank:


Sound argument. Only thing I would add for clarity is that importers of rice and other products need to pay fair duties so the government can generate revenue for investment in key areas that will continue to improve our competitiveness. Smuggling through the border must be eradicated at all costs as it makes the comparative advantage math unfair.

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

MUMUdom:
Ghana is not ordinary,huh? Respect yourself

Mumu.com
That says it all

Zizza:


Soooo we should open it down so that just any trash can come in?
Enemy of progress!!
Open your mouth down let bats and rats make their nets there now...

Rubbish and ingredients

so all the trades that have been coming in for centuries are trash abi?

U are really thinking from your anus mumu

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

fried gini..... u go pour an for gutter byurself

AlphaStyles:
so all the trades that have been coming in for centuries are trash abi?

U are really thinking from your anus mumu

It's obvious you're hungry
And a hungry man is always angry
Get help ASAP
We don't want any goods coming into our country through smuggling PERIOD!!!
What's your stress in this life??
Get your goods in through the right channel and stop holding this great country to ransom

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.

Rice is a staple food. It is not a luxury for a few rich people that you can decide to overlook.
We cannot keep losing billions and billions of dollars to its imports.

We need to start encouraging local production.

Hangulsaram:

What is wrong buying our own product at high price?

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

Zizza:


It's obvious you're hungry
And a hungry man is always angry
Get help ASAP
We don't want any goods coming into our country through smuggling PERIOD!!!
What's your stress in this life??
Get your goods in through the right channel and stop holding this great country to ransom

As ur name mumu na so u too mumu

AlphaStyles:
As ur name mumu na so u too mumu

Hungry smuggler
Na that hunger go finish you

Now they'll know the value of Nigeria as a country. Nigeria is a great country, na our leaders just dey misbehave

Thai and Indian business men are already bringing their improved seeds to plant in Nigeria.
The border closure is a blessing . It will bring FDI into Nigeria. Dangote and Coscharis are going into rice big. OLAM and STALLION are already making big.
If anyone criticizes Buhari fo.r closing border, you have my permission to curse him

Fuckeduppedness There is only one MUMU country

Zizza:



Mumu.com
That says it all

Ade24682:
Even God knows the local farmer won't meet demands.

You are cursed!

Hangulsaram:

What is wrong buying our own product at high price?

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.

tony1918:
A bag of imported Rice sells for 15k and local rice sells for 12k before the border closure ..After the closure the local rice the poor masses are meant to buy sell for as high 18k and the imported now sales for 25k..Please what is the gain of the Poor Masses in the border closure

We is poor masses victimising themselves and that is as a result of government failure in regulating people's activity

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

Most of these govt agencies are useless. Thats the duty of argic research institute to do, get the seeds n try growing them, studying n how next step before dispensing to farmers to grow. Year in year out, they do nothing

thelastorca:


what will the market cost of rice be if they were not smuggling it?

Probably a lot lower than it currently is.

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....

I don't know where you got your rice from. The lake rice I bought last year was totally stone free. The Coshcaris rice I bought a few months ago, I have not come across a single stone. All are made in Nigeria

WONT YOU BLAME BUHARI??

If Nigerians can buy latest phones, cars and other luxuries... I wonder y they can get better seed to improve their production... Nawa ooo

djon78:




Actually this border closure will create demand for local Rice
The demand will attract more investor's
Plenty producers will have to innovate and improve on there Rice quality and pricing to attract customers

The consumers are better off

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.

MUMUdom:
Fuckeduppedness There is only one MUMU country

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

Ishilove:

By buying local rice at 18,000?

The price will definitely go up before it stabilizes.
It is expected
Demand and supply at work here

When gsm started in Nigeria
Lines were expensive
But when glo came in, they crashed the price,
Competition will crash the price

See ishi I have criticized this government
But on this one they got it right