The Senate Committee on Agriculture says two million metric tons of rice are imported or smuggled into Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime.
This is just as the committee said, in 2021, the production of milled rice in Nigeria was estimated to amount to five million metric tons.
Vice-chairman of the committee, Muhammad Enagi, disclosed this at a meeting with a multi-stakeholder group on rice council advocacy bill promotion.
The interactive meeting was organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Global Environment Facility (GEF),…
