Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Nigeria Customs Service and the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria sign Memorandum of Understanding






     Nigeria Customs Service and the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, RIFAN, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, to fight rice smuggling through land border into the country

   President Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria. RIFAN, Aminu Goronyo, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen today in Abuja.
  He said even though the importation of rice through the land borders was banned since April 2016 with an extension to the restriction of rice into the Nigerian market from the Export Processing Zones , smugglers still engaged in the unwholesome act.
   Goronyo warned Nigerians against the consumption of foreign rice, saying that most of the imported rice is stale and only meant for animal and fish feeds.


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