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Nigeria expects 15,000 tonnes of rice from India

Nigeria expects 15,000 tonnes of rice from India

Postby Richard Akindele » Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:16 pm

By Sunday Ojeme
Published: Sunday, 18 Jan 2009

Any moment from now, Nigeria and four other African countries will be taking delivery of 15,000 tonnes each of non basmati rice from India. The new arrangement was disclosed through a trade ministry statement in India on Friday.

Basmati refers to the nutlike flavour and aroma of small, but long grained rice. It has been used in India and Pakistan for thousands of years and is excellent with curries. Several varieties are now grown in the United States. This flavour will, however, not be present in the consignment expected in the country.

Reuters reported that the sales would be directed through the India government-run trading firm, State Trading Corporation Limited.

The grains of basmati rice are much longer than they are wide, and they grow even longer as they cook. They stay firm and separate, not sticky, after cooking. Basmati rice is available both as white rice and a brown rice. Both of these cook in about 20 minutes. Due to the high amount of starch clinging to the rice grains, many cooks wash this rice before cooking it. Soaking it for half an hour to two hours before cooking makes the grains less likely to break during cooking.

According to the report, Nigeria, Senegal, and Ghana will each be shipped 15,000 tonnes, while 10,000 tonnes will go to Cameroon.

India banned non-basmati rice exports in April to ensure supplies for its more than one billion people, but has agreed on limited shipments recently after diplomatic requests.

Although the cost of importation was not stated, a survey conducted by the Dutch Agricultural Development and Trading Company last year revealed that Nigeria spends estimated $1.3bn every year to import around 2.2 billion kg of rice in order to fulfill its domestic requirements.

The report, which was presented at the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between DADTCO and the Taraba State Government on the Taraba Rice Project, further stated that it was wasteful for Nigeria to continue to deploy its scarce resources in rice importation.

The Israeli ambassador to Nigeria had at one time expressed his government‘s readiness to assist Nigeria in the mechanisation of agriculture to boost food production, especially in the rice-farming sector.
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Postby Richard Akindele » Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:17 pm

With as much fertile land as Nigeria has, why can't we grow our own rice?
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