Quarra Rice
Mill, one of the country’s largest rice processing mills which has an annual
capacity of 30,000 tonnes of paddy rice is set to add pep to the Nigeria’s Agricultural
Transformation Agenda (ATA) to meet the rapidly growing domestic rice demand.
The mill
which is operated by Quarra Rice Limited would have output of parboiled rice
and rice flour sold domestically to help alleviate food security and serve as
substitute for expensive imports.
The United
States Department of Agriculture
reports that the estimated level of import of rice in Nigeria stands at 2.7
million tons of rice per annum, while Nigeria produces 2.85 tons of milled rice
and 4.524 million tons of paddy rice per year.
At
the commissioning of the mill, recently, the Governor of Kwara
State, Abdulfatah Ahmed was quoted as saying that “it was alarming that
Nigeria continued to spend about $2 billion annually on importation of roughly
2 million metric tons of rice, wasting scarce foreign exchange and stunting
growth of local agriculture, while accelerating the growth of foreign
economies.”
On his
part, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Adewunmi Adesina, who was
represented by Executive Director of National Centre for Agricultural
Mechanisation. Ike Azogu said that 9 million metric tons of food was added to
the nation’s domestic food supply in 2012/2013, which is an increase of 80
percent more than the annual target of 5 million metric tons.
“Food
imports declined by N857 billion by the end of 2012; for example, the nation’s
import bill for wheat, rice and sugar was down by $3 billion in 2012. Agric
exports expanded by 822,000 metric tons in 2012, as the sector’s contribution
to non-oil exports expanded by N759 billion,” he said.
*Additional
report from Businessday
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