The Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RPAN) has appealed to the Federal Government to criminalise the sales of foreign rice in the country. The... Read More
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Chief Moses Nome, the Ebonyi Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, has attributed the high cost of rice in the state to inflation. The... Read More
The United States Agency for International Development and Food and Agriculture Organisation, on Tuesday, sensitized farmers in Kebbi on ways to combine rice with... Read More
Prices of grains have crashed in Kano, sequel to arrival of fresh farm produce as farmers commenced harvesting their crops. SEE ALSO: Markets, Places Of... Read More
FG’s Intervention In Agric. Attracts Investments In Rice Production – Miller
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The Head of Procurement, Lula Rice Mill, in Gombe, Mr Ahmed Bamusa, on Thursday said the Federal Government’s intervention in agriculture had attracted investments in... Read More
The Senator representing Zamfara West, Sen. Lawali Hassan, has distributed 6,000 bags of rice as Ramadan packages to people in his constituency. SEE ALSO: Police... Read More
The Oyo State Government’s rejection of 1,800 bags of rice from the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has pitched the Minister,... Read More
The Nigeria Customs Services says it has seized no less than 1,000 bags of smuggled foreign rice stockpiled in a residential apartment in Gombi town... Read More
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, has identified the states that have benefitted from the Federal Government’s COVID-19... Read More
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says Nigeria is making progress in rice production and processing. SEE ALSO: Lockdown: Ogun FRSC Commends Motorists Over Compliance Mr... Read More
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Muhammad Nanono, has said that any rice producer selling a 50kg bag of rice above N15,000 is... Read More
Officials of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have intercepted 1, 393 bags of rice concealed in gas cylinders within Ogun State. Displaying the smugglers before... Read More
RIFAN: President Buhari introduces a collateral-free loan scheme for farmers
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Keffi(Nasarawa State), Oct. 24, 2019 (NAN) Alhaji Ramaham Abubakar, the Chairman of Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) in Nasarawa State, has commended President Muhammadu... Read More
President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘’rice revolution’’ is laudable. Before the ‘’crop rebellion’’, Nigeria spent about $1.65 billion annually importing rice from Thailand and India. But the... Read More
Following the partial closure of Nigeria’s borders with intensified joint patrol conducted by the Customs and Immigration, there has been high patronage of locally produced... Read More
The Customs Service, Seme Border Area Command, says it has intercepted 875 bags of foreign parboiled rice and other goods, valued at N40m, in two... Read More
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) said it intercepted a truck with registration number XA2297NAK carrying 700 bags of foreign rice on the Minna-Lambata-Suleja highway. Mr... Read More
A rice disease suspected to be Rice Blast has ravaged farmlands in Ayaya near Adabda in Gamawa Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The District... Read More
The German Government, with support from the Bill and Mellinda Gates Foundation, has provided two million Euros for implementation of the second phase of the... Read More
Hameed Ali (rtd), the Comptroller-General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has appealed to Nigerians to stop consuming foreign rice because it is poisonous. He said this... Read More
The Federal Government has approved N60 billion in support of its rice subsidy programme aimed at bringing down the price of the commodity across the... Read More
Agric Minister describes USDA’s report on rice importation in 2018 as “mischief”
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The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has described as “mischief” the report credited to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)... Read More
Women rice processors in Kafingana village, Birnin Kudu Local Government Area of Jigawa have solicited support from Sasakawa Global 2000 in the form of loan... Read More
The Federal College of Education Staff Union (COEASU) of Federal College of Education (Special), FCE, Oyo, in a rare show of solidarity and compassion donated... Read More
The Sokoto Command of Nigerian Customs
Service (NCS) has seized 517 bags of foreign rice and 320 parcels of
Indian hemp of 1kg each illegally smuggled into... Read More
The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) says its members now have the capacity to produce 24 million metric tonnes of rice annually. The RIFAN... Read More
The Federal Government says it will shut down the land border between Nigeria and a neigbouring country in a few days time to avoid smuggling... Read More
Four persons have been reported dead in a gunfire that ensued between some smugglers and a combined anti-smuggling patrol team of men of the Nigerian... Read More
Pre-monsoon thunderstorms and lightning strikes in Bangladesh have killed dozens of Bangladeshis, officials reported on Thursday. A director at Bangladesh’s disaster management department, Iftekharul Islam... Read More
NEMA DG, Maihaja, paid N400 million demurrage to clear N414.8 million Chinese rice donation
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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) paid a whopping sum of N400 million in demurrage to clear rice donated by the Chinese government for distribution... Read More
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