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CBN to Crash Price of Rice with 27,000MT Supply Boost

June 22, 2021
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In a bid to address the continued increase in the price of rice, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has partnered with the Rice farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) to distribute 27,000 metric tonnes of rice paddies directly to millers nationwide on Thursday, June 24, 2021.

According to the latest data from Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, NBS, the average price of 1kg of rice increased by 17.46% year-on-year in May 2021.

In a statement announcing the measure to address the above trend, the CBN said:

“The direct allocation from RIFAN warehouses across 16 States of the Federation is sequel to the earlier sale of paddy aggregated as loan repayment under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) to millers from the rice pyramids unveiled in Niger, Kebbi, Gombe and Ekiti States.”

According to the Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department at the CBN, Osita Nwanisobi, Kaduna, Kaduna State, has been selected as the key location for the paddy allocation exercise which will be done simultaneously in the States that recorded the highest quality of rice harvests during the last farming season.

He said the new strategy was in line with the CBN’s mandate of ensuring price stability and its focus of being a people-centered central bank.

He also expressed optimism that the allocation of the paddies would trigger a decline in the prices of rice in the Nigerian market, boost availability, and ultimately check the activities of middlemen seeking to create artificial scarcity along the supply chains.

The CBN recently unveiled pyramids ofrice paddies in Niger, Kebbi, Gombe and Ekiti States, with the Federal Capital Territory, Ebonyi and Cross River slated for the same exercise in the coming weeks in what the Bank says is part of its contribution to ensuring self-sustenance in food production as well as food security in Nigeria.

It will be recalled that the CBN, working with relevant agencies, in January 2021, had triggered the release of about 300,000 metric tonnes of maize from strategic anchors under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) which forced down the prices of maize from N180,000 per metric tonne.

Read Also: Rice Becomes More Expensive, Price up by 17.5% in May

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