Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari says that Nigerian farmers need to produce enough food for the country as the West African country has no money to import food.
Nigeria is densely populated and there are concerns around food security following the coronavirus pandemic.
Nigeria has a population of about 200 Million people.
According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Programme, Farmers in Nigeria had not been able to satisfy the country even before the coronavirus crisis.
Nigeria’s agriculture sector has heavily been neglected as the economy focuses on revenue from Oil.
Prior to the ban, Nigeria used to import over a million tonnes of rice from Thailand yearly.
Now it only allows foreign rice through its ports, and imposes high import taxes.
Food prices have shot up in the country since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the government revenues have been hit due to fall in oil prices.
Source: BBC
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