The Federal Government says it has distributed no fewer than 300 rice mills to farmers and millers in different states of the country in 2018.
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The Federal Government has signed an agreement with an Indian company to procure and supply 10 large scale rice mills worth N10.7 billion before the end of this year.
Obichukwu said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Calabar on Thursday that the initiative was part of efforts aimed at making Ebonyi the largest producer of rice in Nigeria.
According to the minister, the country’s food import bill has further declined from N1.1 trillion in 2009 to N684 billion in 2013.
Ogbeh said: “Nigeria has huge agricultural potentials with 11 million hectares of arable land but only cultivates 40 per cent; 263 billion cubic metres of water with two of the largest rivers in Africa