The Chairman,
Raymos Guanah Farms (RGF) Mr Raymos Guanah has called on the
Federal Government to establish rice mills in the rice-producing states in the
country.
Guanah
made the call in Asaba, Delta State, stressing that establishing rice mills
would alleviate the burden of rice farmers looking for where to process their
products and add value to their products.
NaijaAgroNet learnt that Guanah, who was the
former Commissioner for Lands and Survey in Delta, that it’s also necessary for
government to establish post-harvest storage facilities across the country to
enable farmers preserve their products.
He
charged government to ban importation of rice, subsidise agro-chemicals and
farm implements to aid small scale farmers as only the provision of subsidy on
fertilisers is not enough to boost rice farming.
He
lamented that even though the country is blessed with arable land the greatest
challenge faced by small scale farmers in the country was lack of government’s
assistance and advised against politicising agriculture.
NaijaAgroNet noted from this technocrat
turned farmer that it would be laudable for government to find ways of engaging
members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in farming instead of allowing
them to cluster in government offices doing nothing.
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