In 2016, cumulative from just six states: Kebbi, Kano, Bauchi, Plateau, Ebonyi, and Anambra, showed that their rice production has reached 5,436,000 metric tonnes of paddy rice.
Last year, Nigeria set a target to be self-sufficient in rice production by 2018, and this culminated in one of the rare occasions that, the government will go beyond rhetoric in actualising an objective.
The Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP), an initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) wa
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