By Makua – Awka, Anambra
Ugbenu is my town of origin and my pride, the town that feeds her state.
Thus the state of origin, Anambra contributed to her rural poverty.
A strong town seeking to achieve improving governance and capacity at their local level; strengthening the provision and access to essential infrastructure services on their own; supporting private small-scale enterprise development within their axis.
A hardworking town that imbibed similar virtue in her sons and daughters, known for supporting income and employment generating.
One of our strong sources of income and endeavour is rice production.
We’re among the towns in Anambra that produce paddy rice in abundance. With serious efforts made by her sons and daughters, the self-sufficiency policy of rice production has been achievable.
Rice is consumed in great quantities every day, making the demand to be very high. Of the total projected population figure of 200million in Nigeria, over 70% feed on rice. Because of the high demand, most of what is consumed is imported. This situation should not be allowed to continue forever. These importers and state governments must channel their huge resources to establish modern milling plants in Nigeria instead of helping the growth of some foreign countries.
Kudos to the Buhari led government on the recent brave height taken in encouraging local rice production in Nigeria.
Ugbenu, a town in Awka north local government area of Anambra is a proud rice production town.
Make our farmers happier, encourage local processors of rice to come back to life and make more money with less competition with imported products.
Encouraging local production or adding value to agricultural produce and processing is one of the good things that can happen to this state(Anambra) because the policy will generate more employment opportunities and put more food on the tables of farmers.
Come to Ugbenu for your quality, affordable, healthy, packaged and naturally processed local rice.
We’re available for both wholesale and retail sales.
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Makua is 9News Nigeria guest writer and writes from Awka, Anambra State
