Low quality and high prices of most locally parboiled rice have continued to dampen the success recorded in Nigeria’s production of the crop in recent years.
President Muhammadu Buhari had last year said his administration’s ‘rice revolution’ had made the country attain food sufficiency.
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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.
