The Federal Government yesterday disclosed that the country losses about N1 billion every day due to the importation of rice, assuring that it will soon stop.
This was disclosed yesterday by the Special Adviser to the President on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, NEPAD, and African Peer Review Mechanism, APRM, Mrs. Fidelia Akuabata Njeze, at a one-day stakeholders’ forum on the establishment of the Nigeria/ECOWAS rice sector policy and regulation advocacy platform, in Abuja.
According to her, Nigerians has been exporting jobs and financial resources that should have been used for the transformation of the rice sector because of importation.
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