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| Acting President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo |
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief
Audu Ogbeh has intimated the Federal
Executive Council headed by the Acting
President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo that about 200 rice mills would soon be
distributed to owners against
importation and self sufficiency.
At the state house executive meeting held this week, Chief
Audu Ogbeh told the council members that spraying against pest would soon
commence to protect the rice cultivation for the rainy reason saying the issues
of avian influenza and queala attacker were receiving proactive action.
He that said “ Nigeria
is faced with avian flu for chicken, that’s one of the things that the
commissioners will discuss, we have the attack of queala birds, and some other
insect that destroys farmland and we are going to start another round of
spraying because rice farming has begun again, in the north west and part of
the north east. The other challenge is rice smuggling, we are close to
achieving self-sufficiency in rice production by the end of this year,
especially because we are about to distribute 200 rice mills to those who made
bids for them”
The Minister had last week lamented on the high cost of
local rice to imported ones which was well reported by the media, while the
Acting President had in another function told Nigerians to resist importation
saying it was an act of creating job elsewhere at the expense added government
support should be extended to help farmers and millers.
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