date:Sep 06, 2013
e already increased, Adesina said.
The world's second-largest importer of rice, Nigeria aims to become self-sufficient by 2015 after introducing a 100 percent tax on polished rice imports this year, likely to mostly affect countries like India, Thailand and Brazil.
Security sources and farmers have said one backlash has been a rise in smuggling of rice and sugar from neighbouring countries and into ports.
Higher cassava output has been used to make flour, reducing wheat imports mostly from th