Nigeria: Provide Enabling Environment for Rice Production, Says Rifan
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Vanguard (Lagos)
18 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008
Lagos
FOR the country to produce intensively to satisfy our domestic requirements and have surplus for exports, there has to be an enabling environment for rice production and processing, according to Chairman, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, RIFAN, Alhajji Abubakar Wodi.
In in his opening remarks at the Launch and Public Presentation of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) Rice Network in Abuja, the RIFAN Chairman said the enabling environment for rice production and processing could only come about through effective coordination between the relevant ministries, which according to him were Agriculture, Commerce, Finance on hand and rice farmers and private sector on the other hand.
Alhajji Wodi also said that the role of the Commodity Exchange Market should be emphasied as a platform for effective exchange for farmers' produce.
Explaining what he meant by enabling environment, the RIFAN chairman said Nigerian rice farmers, "need massive production irrigation facilities, farm implements such as reapers, threshers, etc, processing mills of all grades and sizes, extensive farming training and importantly, cost effective credit facilities accessible to farmers, processors and traders.
The RIFAN chairman pointed out that the need to have a policy advocy structure for the rice sector for sustainability of production, processing and quality of finished rice to guarantee good price for farmers could not be overemphasised, adding: "We all know that good gate prices will keep farmers happy, and thus enable them break even."
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