Nigeria enjoys a perfect rice-growing climate over a vast area yet it is the world's second biggest importer of the staple, often from countries in its warm, wet tropical latitude like top exporter Thailand.
It's one of those baffling Nigerian paradoxes, like the fact that it is Africa's top oil
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