While
many critics still doubt Nigeria’s ability to meet up with her rice sufficiency
needs by 2015, through local production, Sokoto State Commissioner for
Agriculture has called for supports for the farmers and see what will happen.
Sokoto
State Commissioner for Agriculture, Muh’d
Arzika Tureta, said the quantum of rice production in the state and
other neighbouring states had risen in just few years due to the collaborative
efforts of the state government with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.
The
Commissioner who disclosed this in Sokoto while conducting journalists round
recently said “I am 100 percent in support of the planned ban on importation of
rice into Nigeria by 2015 because as you can see, our farmers have produced
twice as much paddy this year as compared to last year’s rice harvest and they
deserve to get the best out of their efforts”.
Tureta
added that
