The Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu
Ogbeh has assured Nigerians that the Federal Government is poised to satisfy
the citizens with massive production of rice within one year.
He said this in Hadejia and Auyo local
government areas of Jigawa State on Friday when visited the places to ascertain
the level of rice production in Jigawa state. He then assured that rice
production in the country is part of efforts designed to discourage the
importation of the commodity.
He stated that as part of its programme
to encourage state governors to key in to the massive production of rice,
Jigawa State government will contribute over 1.2 million metric tons of the
product.
Ogbeh was alongside the governor of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, and the chairman of the
Presidential Taskforce on Rice and Wheat Production who is also the Kebbi State
Governor, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu and the host Governor, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar.
They were all in Auyo Local Government
Area on a tour of the massive rice farm.
That would be a great development, but when?
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