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The importance of Agriculture to the economy cannot be quantified more especially in the present economic crunch where all other sources of revenue have dwindled. Besides, agriculture is the only dependable activity that could guarantee food security apart from its economic benefits, hence, the federal government saw the need to diversify the economy with much priority to agriculture.

Nigeria is blessed with vast arable land that can sustain commercial agriculture for both cash crops and food crops. Oil revenue in the global market has continued to shrink and agriculture becomes the alternative economic base that could replace dependency on oil. The Federal Government, therefore, did not hesitate to go back to agric which used to be the mainstay of the economy prior to the discovery of oil. “Go back to the land and develop agriculture because the era of depending on oil is over’’ that was the message of President Muhammadu Buhari to farmers when he lunched the dry season and the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Anchor Rice Borrowers Programme in Birnin Kebbi on the 17th of November 2015. It could also be recalled that the President has made no secret of his determination to improve the base of Nigeria’s economy by reviving agriculture and opening the mines among other measures.

This month’s clock one year of the CBN Anchor Rice Borrowers Programme in Kebbi state; the program aims to boost rice and wheat production in Nigeria by providing loans to farmers.

Thousands of farmers have seized the opportunity created by the Central Bank Anchor Borrowers Programme to expand rice output it has been celebration galore for rice farmers in the state as they claimed to have recorded high bumper harvest in comparison with previous years. The kebbi state Governor , Chairman National Task Force on Rice and wheat Atiku Bagudu and his Deputy Samaila Yombe along with Chairman of the state’s Rice Farmers’ Association, Alhaji Sahabi Augie conveyed journalists round to see for themselves place like Augie, Kalgo, Dandi, Bunza, suru, wasagu and Birnin kebbi local government areas where farmers where seen displaying and celebrating their bumper harvest .

Interestingly, Kebbi state has sured the one million tonnes of rice targeted for harvest in the year with over eight hundred and fifty tonnes.

The chairman rice farmers Association Sahabi Augie said the yield increase was due to improved seedlings and the assistance rendered to farmers through the Anchor Borrowers Programme of the CBN with over 500,000 hectares of cultivated land across ten local government areas of the state. He explained that the variety of rice cultivated in kebbi include Nerica7 and 84 as well as faro 44,52, and 61 with farming occurring thrice through the dry, wet, dry season within a year with Rima and sokoto river serving the dry season irrigation farming.

http://thenationonlineng.net/bumper-harvest-kebbi-sures-one-million-tonnes-rice/

I pray o!

Over to you wailers

Wow! Cool.

we are celebrating a bumper harvest and others are still blowing up pipelines. God bless Nigeria

Rice takes max of 120 days to harvest.. . All through the Jonathan campaign on rice blabla i didn't see any local rice in port harcourt.... But today its everywhere... I even bought one rebaged as CAP RICE... . And yet people are asking what has Buhari done

Wait u will sone see

mrvitalis:
Rice takes max of 120 days to harvest.. . All through the Jonathan campaign on rice blabla i didn't see any local rice in port harcourt.... But today its everywhere... I even bought one rebaged as CAP RICE... . And yet people are asking what has Buhari done

Wait u will sone see

They will rather hide and avoid this thread. Change is undeniable . . .

SweetyZinta:
we are celebrating a bumper harvest and others are still blowing up pipelines. God bless Nigeria

You are happy for the bumper harvest. The Niger Delta militants are also happy for their own harvest.
Both ways are OK

mrvitalis:
Rice takes max of 120 days to harvest.. . All through the Jonathan campaign on rice blabla i didn't see any local rice in port harcourt.... But today its everywhere... I even bought one rebaged as CAP RICE... . And yet people are asking what has Buhari done

Wait u will sone see

Nice one. We cannot afford all this importation. We urgently need local rice. Please under what other names are they sold? I need to start buying them.

agabusta:


Nice one. We cannot afford all this importation. We urgently need local rice. Please under what other names are they sold? I need to start buying them.

you want to buy propaganda rice and from where will you get it

We will feel it when rice can be bought cheaper.

mrvitalis:
Rice takes max of 120 days to harvest.. . All through the Jonathan campaign on rice blabla i didn't see any local rice in port harcourt.... But today its everywhere... I even bought one rebaged as CAP RICE... . And yet people are asking what has Buhari done

Wait u will sone see

zone B... Bought @ what price What has the quality(local or Foreign) go to do with the fact that rice was sold @ N8,500/bag under GEJ and now 20k under the clueless master Xmas is around the corner

Hiploko:
zone B... Bought @ what price What has the quality(local or Foreign) go to do with the fact that rice was sold @ N8,500/bag under GEJ and now 20k under the clueless master Xmas is around the corner

The difference is u made someone in Thailand richer under Jonathan but i made a Nigerian richer

mrvitalis:

The difference is u made someone in Thailand richer under Jonathan but i made a Nigerian richer

at whose expense The poor buyer and consumer who has to pay extra N12k to eat lower quality rice.. Just Negodu how a zone b reasons... Where una brain dey domiciled sef!

I dey tell una say when Buhari finish with this country, people go dey sleep embassy to collect Nigerian visa. Small time now we go dey price 2 bag of rice #1500.

PMB WE ARE WITH YOU!

demolinka:
I dey tell una say when Buhari finish with this country, people go dey sleep embassy to collect Nigerian visa. Small time now we go dey price 2 bag of rice #1500.

PMB WE ARE WITH YOU!

for the small 2 years wey remain for am? Your faith father Abraham own o!!!

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Propaganda government,yet rice is still selling between 20k-22k at market. No be only 1m,while not 1b, lying liers deceitful government.

Hiploko:
for the small 2 years wey remain for am? Your faith father Abraham own o!!!

Na 2023 he dey hand over na

Even Donald Trump will buy and eat Nigerian rice despite his hatred for Nigerians.

Good news.

CBN nah correct institution.

It seems agriculture is moving forward in the north.

Sai north.

Hiploko:
at whose expense The poor buyer and consumer who has to pay extra N12k to eat lower quality rice.. Just Negodu how a zone b reasons... Where una brain dey domiciled sef!

Nigerian rice bagged as Nigerian rice is less than 12k.. . I was cheated i bought Thailand rice.. So next time?? Surely a Nigerian rice bagged as Nigerian rice... Hope u get now

Pls we don't want one million tonnes on paper, let us see the rice in the marker and the rippling price effect
We have had enough of propaganda already.
Zombies can eat their rice on paper for all I care, the rest of us have learnt cautious pessimism

Nice.
Kebbi is leading the way on real developmental actions. Meanwhile we are supposed to be the smarter ones.

The change is happening already

Willie obiano beat this wannabe state in rice production

Hiploko:
at whose expense The poor buyer and consumer who has to pay extra N12k to eat lower quality rice.. Just Negodu how a zone b reasons... Where una brain dey domiciled sef!

Did you say rice stored for years in warehouses in Thailand are of better quality than freshly milled local rice?

A million tonnes is equivalent to one billion kilograms which at 50kg a bag of rice equals to 20 million bags of rice.

That equates to 1 bag of 50kg rice for every 8 Nigerians (at 160illion population figure) .

and they achieved all this in less than one year?

Born liars

Bloody liars


The worlds leading rice producer is China with just an annual turnover of 144,000 tonnes


Why must these people always lie?

While some lazy people are ing trump online and still foolishly blaming buhari for their misfortune

ManirBK:
Over to you wailers

Use brain zombie and look up

abduljabbar4:
While some lazy people are ing trump online and still foolishly blaming buhari for their misfortune

This is a fat lie and obviously another avenue to get govt subsidy to buy non existing rice for storage.

China with larger landmass a with rice as a staple food does not even smell that rubbish you guys are circulating.

Abi una sabi farm rice China?

Impressive!.. If rice takes such a short time to harvest, why can't this rice revolution be faster?... We've got massive expanse of land all over the place, why is every state not doing this?