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

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.

Afamed:

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

djon78:


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

RTSC:

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.

stagger:


The masses can cultivate rice on even one plot, and get enough rice from that plot in 3 months to feed for 2 years.

We should stop this nonsense we are doing: enriching countries like India and Thailand.

If Nigeria had boycotted MTN during the xenophobic attacks, that company would have lost half its revenues.

kotv:
Nigerians are so easily deceived, it is sad. You have to be very stupid or gullible to believe the accuracy of this report. Thailand and India are the two largest rice exporters to all over the world, especially Asia and African countries. How gullible do you have to be to think Nigeria closure will affect both countries when they have larger markets than Nigeria they cater to. Did other African countries and Asian countries, including Middle Eastern countries, close their borders too?

grandstar:


Prove to me that Nigeria has comparative advantage? I've just bought popcorn. I'm listening

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.

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.

loswhite:
it is always about the investors...smh. what about the citizens?

tony1918:
You should stop been shallow with your thinking..Why can’t the FG supply the farmers with reasonable loans,subsidies farm tools and help fund research towards attaining well polished grain rice ..They should stop leaving the masses to suffer at the end

Afamed:

Go to Kebbi, Kano and the recent one Coshcaris rice in Anambra. FG has been giving loans at very reasonable % to various farmers in Nigeria

grandstar:


Prove to me that Nigeria has comparative advantage? I've just bought popcorn. I'm listening

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

Afamed:

it only hits hard on the smugglers in Nigeria. Genuine investors are smiling to the banks

Afamed:

If you are still lying on your bed at this 21th century telling me to prove to you Nigeria comparative advantage for production of rice. I think you as a person needs to re examing yourself. The problem with people like you is the feeding bottles attitude that has long deposited .When has production of rice become a rocket science? If a population of 200,000,000 with approximately 923,763km3 land mass can not produce Rice. Then like I said early, our existence is threaten.

odave:


No one is disputing that fact. What I mean is the Nigerian comsumers. The government did the right but it's hitting hard on us consumers too. No need to pretend here. I will miss those rice

kotv:
Nigerians are so easily deceived, it is sad. You have to be very stupid or gullible to believe the accuracy of this report. Thailand and India are the two largest rice exporters to all over the world, especially Asia and African countries. How gullible do you have to be to think Nigeria closure will affect both countries when they have larger markets than Nigeria they cater to. Did other African countries and Asian countries, including Middle Eastern countries, close their borders too?

DBossNG:


Sincerely, we do not know our worth.

Afamed:

If you are still lying on your bed at this 21th century telling me to prove to you Nigeria comparative advantage for production of rice. I think you as a person needs to re examing yourself. The problem with people like you is the feeding bottles attitude that has long deposited .When has production of rice become a rocket science? If a population of 200,000,000 with approximately 923,763km3 land mass can not produce Rice. Then like I said early, our existence is threaten.

mrjojo:
No thanks to WordPress now, the proliferation of "website designer" all over the place, All of you guys keep spamming all front-page thread, oga, anybody with half a brain can design a website these days, with WordPress and other cms, i will advive you upgrade, learn nodejs, angular, vue, d3.js cos very very soon, website design rate will be going for as low as 2k. Be wise

odave:


No one is disputing that fact. What I mean is the Nigerian comsumers. The government did the right but it's hitting hard on us consumers too. No need to pretend here. I will miss those rice

omoharry:
True.Our local rice is terrible and expensive as if it was smuggled.I think government should open the border, pending when our local farmers are ready to do business properly.How can our local rice that is not even clean and sweet like the rice from Thailand and India is now twice as expensive and not even available for Nigerians to buy.

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?

GreenArrow1:


A lot of you are really ignorant fah (No insult intended). So you are not aware of Nigerian stone-free rice which is just like foreign rice? You can use that to make fried rice and it'll come out just fine.

Area4Area:
This is how we we know smugglers or those close or related to them, by their posts we shall know them.

omoharry:
why dont you start by keeping your street and environment clean by not throwing rubbish through your car windows and in drainage .Then also ensure you obey all traffic regulation,stop driving against traffic light and using one way against traiifc so that your country will be livable for all Nigerians as well as visitors.Nigeria it is a shithole because we treat it like trash since nobody cares ..No be only rice matter you remember patriotism. Start buying only made in Nigerian clothes and shoes, buy your car from Innoson cars instead of a foreign cars like Mercedes, Honda,Kia, and Toyota and ensure all the things you use on a daily basis are produced in Nigeria..then we will understand what you mean by patriotism..no be only rice matter you go remember to be a patriot. Patriotism my foot.

As for the rice issue what l see, is the government taking drastic action without proper planing,We masses are the one suffering it becos we now have buy our local rice at a very expensive prices(twice the price of the foreign rice that is clean and sweeter) ,I wonder why?. I thought this is the time for local seller to provide ans sell their rice at the normal price so that Nigeria will forget about the Foreign rice but their greed will not allow them.They made the local rice scares so that they can shoot up the price of rice beyond the reach of the common man in this already harsh terrain and you are here praising this government for their poor planing tactic.

omoharry:
Abeg park one corner..why you nor go talk when you don eat your belle full with little regard for the common that cannot afford rice anymore..