Nigeria Should Start Exportation Of Rice By 2017-CBN

The Acting Director, Corporate Communication, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Isaac Okoroafor, in Bayelsa has on Tuesday stated that the Anchor Borrowers Program for the promotion of agriculture has set Nigeria to begin exportation of rice by 2017.
 The CBN official stated that farmers in Kebbi, Jigawa, Ebonyi, Sokoto and Cross River states have already being part of the program, resulting in massive rice cultivation. He added that the country would achieve self-sustenance in rice production if the momentum was sustained and that the country should commence exportation of locally produced rice by 2017.
 He said “The development is encouraging and by the end of 2017, we will not only meet our national demand which is between six and seven million tons but have surplus to export.”

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 “We must rid ourselves of eating foreign rice that has being stored for over 9 years in Thailand, Vietnam and India. Nigerian rice is fresh and healthier.”
“What we have done with this program so far is to create jobs through farming, especially for the unemployed youths. Nigerian youths must wake up, dust themselves up and join this worthy campaign.”



Mr. Isaac encouraging youths to begin farming said “Remember that the status of our farmers is now better due to the support they are receiving as a result of government’s policy. Our currency is weak because we engaged in needless importation of all kinds of food stuffs, including tooth picks; the government is determined to stop this.”