Bag of Rice to sell for #40,000 by December

The Minister of state for Agriculture & Rural Development senator Heineken Lokpobiri said bag of rice  could be #40,000 by December. He said this yesterday September 10 in a town meeting held at yenagoe in Bayelsa.


Lokpobiri said " for your information, we spend about $22bn a year importing food into Nigeria . we know how many more dollars and that is why you see the price of rice going up ." price of rice was # 12,000 some months ago, but it is now about # 26,000 & if we don't start producing ,by December it could be #40,000"

'Rice matures in three months, so this is a wakeup for Beyelsa people to take the four farms we have seriously. The federal government has four farms in the state in our records, the average land you see in Bayelsa can grow rice.so the colonial masters were not wrong in their assessment when they  said Niger Delta  could feed not only Nigeria but the entire west Africa sub region.
Unfortunately agriculture till today is not a priority the way the northwest have prioritied it"