Lol even the boarder closure is a source of income to some people! But recently the influx of foreign rice into the country is too high,come see cars and bikes with loads of rice,but I can't and will never be an informant to enrich some custom officials

agwom:

https://dailytrust.com/despite-importation-ban-foreign-rice-floods-nigerian-markets

The FG should remove the ban on foreign rice, our people are simply very wicked. Local rice that was selling for 13500naira a bag suddenly shot up to 37000naira a bag and stabilized at 30000naira a bag. Is that not wickedness? Let the market be flooded by foreign rice, that will further drag down the price of the local rice. It's called competition in capitalism.

katsina smuggling through Niger republic is working

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Most Nigerian packaged rice is totally useless. Last time I ate at Mama Nkechi's shop, my mouth was the processor, struggling to separate the stones from rice.

She used to be everyone's favorite (for jollof and white rice), now 97.8% have moved to Iyawo Gbenga's shop (since 1818 she's been cooking foreign rice).

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inoki247:
ehn ehn leave people dat can afford foreign to buy their foreign how can foreign and local rice be at almost same range or 1k to 2k difference.....


Shey Saint Louis Sugar affect Dangote from selling iz sugar make dem allow us sort for our foods since the farmer can't meet up and also give us at cheaper rate...

even dangote na saint Louis sugar him dey use

agwom:

https://dailytrust.com/despite-importation-ban-foreign-rice-floods-nigerian-markets

They should check that man on d left. There's some smuggled rice in his belly

I wonder how these economic expert advance the president on economic policies.. The principle of absolute advantage must be adhered to.,... Why ban foreign rice when the cost of local rice is higher than that of foreign rice? Whats the logic behind that? The theory of absolute cost advantage star that a nation should specialize in production of product it can produce cheaper and much more efficiently and import those that will cost it much to produce,., instead of the government should encourage other local production that is cheaper like cocoa rubber etc and allow us to import rice since it cheaper than our so called local production..

Fake growers who cannot remove common stones from their rice before packaging? They should keep lamenting.

lexy2014:


They should check that man on d left. There's some smuggled rice in his belly

lexy2014:


They should check that man on d left. There's some smuggled rice in his belly

helinues:
That must be the work of some government officials

You are right.
No corruption without Government Aid

Some animals will find a way to blame Buhari for this.

The foreign rice is coming in from the northern borders . We know that the whole border closure was only enforced in the south.

TemmyT002:
Make we no lie, majority of the local rice are just terrible.

the way the processors and packagers usually package the rice always looks as if it is done for animals!

Their mind is only focused like a laser beam on the profit they will realise.

Naija! I don't know why they keep failing wholefully!

Is it because of Blackman, black skin and black mind? Something China did (agric) decades ago, now they are dragging superpower with the USA.

bunnae:

Heard it gets spoilt so easily too. The packaging, outlook and everything is just too discouraging. So are so dirty, that you might even need to wash with detergent first before you cook. . Nsukka market has some of the ugliest rice I have ever seen.

L o l detergent!!!


It gets spoilt maybe the packaging is poor quality. You'll notice it always looks dirty, even straight from the sack. And they will hike the price very well, so that you will hate the rice even more.

adadike:
Our local rice Farmers are very greedy. At a point, they were raising the price almost every week. Should we starve because of local rice. A cup is100 to 120 here last Christmas. The govt is not helping matters too

Exactly, increase in price for low quality rice.

Nigeria is not ready yet for made in Nigeria

Instead of improving the quality of your useless rice, Nigerians would rather eliminate competition and force everyone to accept their mediocre rice. Omo, Nigerians are not humans.

0taPiaPia:
Please let there be. I can't come and kill myself. The local rice I bought on Thursday only to make the first cook on Saturday and discovered it is far from "food" it is meant to be. SAND EVERYWHERE as though they want to turn my teeth to a quarry company. God forbid.

Mind you this sand is as a result of the carelessness, laziness and lack of innovation by the local miller's and processors as the sand doesn't come from the farm per say.

they don't care about consumers, consumers are the last thing on their mind. The major focus is on the profit.

These processors are sabotaging the efforts of FG with their greediness.
FG is also at fault for not controlling Price.

Meanwhile, no one cares, nemesis is catching up with them.

Maize farmers should also expects this fate for hoarding it. CBN should do on time and also increase the volume

This is the worst regime ever in the History of this country.

THE LAZY NIGERIAN KEEP ON GIVE BIRTH TO CHILDREN WITHOUT THINKING OF THE FUTURE AND THE FOOD BANK EVERY LAZY NIGERIAN WHO THINK THAT THERE IS BREAD AND BUTTER IN THE CITY WILL GO BACK TO THE VILLAGE UNDER THEIR EMPTY STOMACH ______Pregnancy after covid 19 is not necessary simply because no job to care for family ______Nigeria people no longer reason very well

Oizatobad:
THE LAZY NIGERIAN KEEP ON GIVE BIRTH TO CHILDREN WITHOUT THINKING OF THE FUTURE AND THE FOOD BANK EVERY LAZY NIGERIAN WHO THINK THAT THERE IS BREAD AND BUTTER IN THE CITY WILL GO BACK TO THE VILLAGE UNDER THEIR EMPTY STOMACH ______Pregnancy after covid 19 is not necessary simply because no job to care for family ______Nigeria people no longer reason very well

my brother thank God u mentioned lazy Nigerians!

Not just lazy but unproductive,

Again u are so correct on the second point, na mental laziness dey make them born anyhow without planning!

Population is supposed to be an advantage, if that population is highly productive.

But seriously speaking, some of these people parading themselves as leader need a reset slap, they be thinking, talking and acting CRAZY

It's naija na. EstablIshed 1914.

It's only all Nigerians things that is always substandard and overpriced

Who else saw that tummy. I'm not interested in reading the stories

Freestainworld:
Our local farmers can't meet up with mouth of Nigerians when it comes to food productions, we consumes a lot of rice, and they can't help the matter either as greed have taken over them, so, it's better to import rice to rival with them and to reduce cost of purchase of this product.

. I support you jaree, the Nigeria rice with stones,dirt and so on, am tired of eating that rice,abeg they should allow the foreign rice.i prefer it �

inoki247:
ehn ehn leave people dat can afford foreign to buy their foreign how can foreign and local rice be at almost same range or 1k to 2k difference.....


Shey Saint Louis Sugar affect Dangote from selling iz sugar make dem allow us sort for our foods since the farmer can't meet up and also give us at cheaper rate...

Even when they meet up, I nor day understand the rice..... e nor get how you won cook this Nigeria rice when e nor go end up somehow. Even when foreign rice was scarce I still got it though at a very high rate but I really don't care. Even with the period of time foreign rice was scarce... Nigeria Farmers didn't give us reason to choose them. Their harvest day always get as e be. I nor blame them sha. They should just work on the lessons learnt.

Powersurge:
1. Our politicians are not eating local rice. Even Buhari is not eating local rice.

2. Nigeria rice processors are greedy bastards. If there is no embargo on foreign rice it will comfortably sell for 9,000. Yet you see dome useless local rice sold for as high as 29,000.

3. I ate foreign rice throughout the so called borders closure. When I mistakenly tried LR I regretted it. It looks fine (no stone) but I had to cook for hours, it was too starchy (spilling all over my gas), and the taste was terrible.

4. You can't be giving people inferior goods at exorbitant price and expect them not to boycott it.

Sometimes you cannot have an economic revolution without a cultural revolution first.

If you are told smoking is bad for your health and you should chew gum instead to prolong your life then certain habits have to die. Our taste for foreign imports is one half of the reasons we cannot balance our books.

There is just no way out of that vicious cycle with a cultural revolution. We as Nigerians just have to begin to like what we make and once that is established then we improve to whatever degree we want. That is how all nations develop.

We appear to be a people of terribly weak will power.