Nigeria has scant gains to show for a N1.08 trillion splurge on interventions over the last ten years targeted at boosting rice production.
Millers in Africa’s most populous nation are still unable to get enough paddies locally to keep their mills running.
Nigeria had at different time
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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi
Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues.
She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.