Grant license to registered rice millers to import brown rice to supplement local production – Egwuonwu tells FG
Managing Director of Anambra Rice and Stine Rice Mills Limited, Chief Akai Egwuonwu has given hope that the future is bright for rice production in Anambra as the State Governor, Prof Charles Soludo has continued to show keen interest in that direction.
Egwuonwu articulated factors that should be addressed for both farmers and millers to achieve maximum capacity production, stressing that State government’s sustainable role had continued to yield positive results in the sector.
He noted that rice revolution in Anambra started with the former Governor, Willie Obiano’s administration which he said Prof Soludo had sustained and added impetus to it.
“This year alone I got 120 trailer loads of rice for milling from Umumbo community within Ayamelum axis. When we started in 2007, it was difficult for us to get one trailer load in the whole of Anambra State. And some other mills around this time got some quantities. Harvesting is still ongoing.
