Rice Distributors Urge FG To Assist Farmers Over The Commodity Price

The Rice Distributors Association of Nigeria has called on the federal government to as a matter of agricultural value Chain sustainability encourage rice farmers to produce more for the price of the commodity to be at the reach of the masses.

National vice president of the association, Chief Mrs Lola Solaja, made the appeal on Monday at the official commissioning of Shamad Concept (Nig) Ltd Rice Mill in Kano.

According to her, this could be achieved by effective monitoring on the federal government policies on food sufficiency such as the CBN anchor-borrower program, to ensure that the assistance reaches the target beneficiaries.

“The government should also encourage graduates to embrace farming, give them the capital, good seed, fertilizer and the training they need to do modern farming. The prices will definitely go down like the telecoms’ SIM cards, all we need is for more people to go back to the farm,” she said.

Earlier in his welcome address, the Deputy Managing Director of Shamad Concept (Nig) Ltd Rice Mill, Alhaji Mohammed Sadiq, said the factory was established 20 years ago and was into different businesses such as oil and gas, oil milling and leather/polythene production.

“Rice milling is incorporated in line with the federal government’s commitment to make Nigeria a producer and a self-reliant country. We are determined to produce standard quality indigenous rice, considering its economic importance in our day to day consumption for the benefit of the population and economic growth,” he said.