{"id":11799,"date":"2023-12-08T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2023-12-08T13:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:35:32","slug":"rice-drought-insecurity-and-fertiliser-woes-plaguing-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/rice-drought-insecurity-and-fertiliser-woes-plaguing-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice: Drought, insecurity, and fertiliser woes plaguing production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/local-rice.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/local-rice.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/local-rice-600x343.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ricenewstoday.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/local-rice-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Agriculture, Dr Oluwarotimi Fashola, has identified inconsistent rainfall patterns as the major factor affecting rice production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fashola made this known in an interview with newsmen in Lagos on Thursday while reacting to the consistent hike in the cost of local rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that intermittent drought, high cost of fertiliser, flooding, insecurity, reduction in land cultivation, poor irrigation system and diesel were contributing factors affecting its production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fashola said land areas being used for cultivation in 2023 had reduced at the production level, leading to an increase in price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, \u201cfrom 2022 to early this year, Lagos sold Eko rice at N33,000 per 50kg bag but now, it is N43,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom last year to early this year, we have been buying a tonne of paddy at N240,000, and now we are buying a tonne of rice paddy at N430,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe cost of diesel has risen from N750 to between N1,300 and N1,500 in the north, and production of paddy has reduced considerably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dBefore the insurgents came in 2018, we were already hitting 12 million tonnes of paddy, but now, we barely do eight million tonnes, and the number of mills has increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s say in 2018, the number of functioning mills in Nigeria is barely about 70. Right now, we have over 200 mills, and the one functioning ones are more than 100,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor\u2019s aide noted that paddy was not an imported rice but locally produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that rice was generally cultivated in one production cycle instead of three circles in\u00a0Nigeria\u00a0due to the lack of a proper irrigation system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201d Paddy production has reduced considerably, we do not have an irrigation system and we now have inconsistent rainfall patterns and intermitted drought that affects rice production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cApart from that, we now equally have security issues. So, our production level has shrunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe land area where we\u2019re growing rice in 2023, right now, has a reduced production level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur land level has returned to what we had in 2015 and 2018 because of insecurity, drought and flooding,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fashola explained that the above factors had contributed to the high cost of production in addition to the increased cost of fertilizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFarmers cannot even afford fertiliser. Fertilisers that used to be between N10,000 and N15,000 is now about 40,000 per bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are issues with our production, which is shrinking our production system,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fashola said that a lot of farmers in Lagos State cultivated Ofada rice, adding that the government was gradually winning them into doing the kind of rice that was obtainable in it rice mill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dLagos farmers are still growing when it comes to rice production; the farmers are still developing, so right now, what we get from them is just about one per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis year, we bought about two trucks from Lagos farmer which is about 60 tonnes. Lagos rice farm is divided into Ofada and the medium grain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOfada is popular because of the cost, a 50kg bag of Ofada is N60,000. 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