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ABSTRACT
In Nigeria, rice farming is common in the north, but the major rice producing states are Ebonyi, Anambra, Niger, Kebbi, and Ogun etc. with some of the rice mills as “Abakaliki Rice, Lake (Lagos and kebbi) rice”. The quest to increase production of local rice output in Nigeria led to various interventions by the successive Nigerian government through increases in rice import tariffs to an outright ban on its importation in order to encourage consumption of local produced rice. Some governmental programs and institutions geared toward self-sufficiency in food crop production have been put in place by the Federal Government aimed at reducing the rice-demand supply gap by stimulating surplus harvest for export to other countries. The aim of the Nigerian government to increase the output and encourage consumption of local rice had not been actualized as the importation of rice remained unabated. The recent closure of Nigeria's land borders was partly geared towards reducing the smuggling of this imported staple food crop.
