Rice Farmers in a sentence

Boosting local production and increasing government support, including added subsidies and incentives to rice farmers and local millers, is the “best way” to reduce rice prices and never through tariff reduction, Sinag added.

Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, the Presidential Candidate of the party, who announced this, said CPP government would work to increase rice production and protect the local rice farmers.

Now that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is ready to finance farming in Nigeria, the Governor of CBN should now think of turning these rice smugglers to rice farmers.

Pastor Olayinka Labiran, who is the coordinator of rice farmers in the state, lamented that such calamity has never befallen his members since they ventured into rice farming.

Previously, rice farmers claimed that they were condemned to because the free trade pact with the US obliges them to sow “certified” genetically modified American rice that, because of controversial patent claims, could not be resown.

It would have left rice farmers with unutilised stock of paddy and millers with unsold stock of rice.

It is also a celebration among rice farmers before the rice harvest.

This has heightened fears that by next year, majority of farmers in the state, particularly rice farmers, would be out of business.

In Japan, the fish is believed to date back to the early 19th century, when wild, colourful carp were caught, kept and bred by rice farmers.

Some rice farmers like Paul Sliva argue that more value should be placed on agriculture and preserving the domestic food supply.

Areas that missed rains required rice farmers to stop and flush fields to germinate seeds to get an even stand.

Elusive leader of Boko Haram terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau has confirmed that his group was responsible for the killing of rice farmers in Kwashebe Zabarmari axis of Jere Local government Area of Borno State.

Some of them even began to speculate that the US was fighting to support a Saigon aristocracy who cared nothing for the overtaxed rice farmers that made up eighty percent of the country.

The Chairman of the forum Governor Simon Lalong in a statement, said the entire country was deeply saddened over the killing of the innocent rice farmers who committed no crime, except to go to the farm to earn their living.

This was disclosed by the Kebbi State Chairman of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, Mohammed Sahabi, in an interview with Bloomberg recently.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has expressed sadness over the recent killing of rice farmers in a community in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents.

Although most cases of CKDu have been clustered around Central America, there has been a growing number of reports of chronic kidney disease in other tropical regions, from steel workers in Brazil to rice farmers in India and Sri Lanka.

In May, five rice farmers represented by former Attorney General Anil Nandlall, who had sued the State over the cancellation of their leases by the Mahaica Maichony Abary-Agriculture Development Authority (MMA/ADA) won their case before the High Court.

Over 800 rice farmers in the region use that road but they cannot get the full-needed service from it.

That forced Xavier Jayakumar, the country's water, land and natural resources minister, to ask rice farmers to reschedule their cultivation.