...Import hits 10-year high Nigeria’s farmers are abandoning rice for other, more profitable crops as global glut and higher imports squeeze their profits. The global rice market glut is fuelled by an Asian market oversupply, which has forced its producers to seek new markets or consolidate
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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.

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