The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) has assured the federal government that it output in one farming circle is enough to feed the country and more for the entire Sub Sahara Africa.
Speaking during a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, the national president of the association, Aminu Goronyi, who led a delegation of the executives to the meeting, said the association is ready to expose the lies of the integrated rice farmers who have being feeding Nigerians with a lie that Nigeria cannot feed itself with locally produce rice except it import.
Goronyi, said the rice his members are producing in a farming circle is enough to feed the whole nation and export.
“We want to request for a formal and official collaboration with the ministry. We understand the effort of the federal government to feed Nigeria with locally produce rice. With the data we have as an association, and who we are doing, we can feed this country within one production circle. That is within four months. Everyday we find in the papers and radio, that there is scarcity of rice in Nigeria, that we can’t feed ourselves except we import rice.
“They feed us with so many fake information while we know that the rice we are producing is more than enough to feed this country. Only that there are some people who want to sabotage the government and those making effort to produce enough food,” said.
He said the association has engaged consultants to gather rice farmers data to enable the government know the true state of rice production in the country.
