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Agric Minister orders closure of cold rooms with rotten fish in Lagos Tue, Mar 25, 2014 The Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, CON, has ordered the immediate shutdown of all cold rooms found to be stockpiling expired or unwholesome fish in the country. The Minister gave the directive on 25 March 2014 in Lagos, shortly after inspecting a number of cold storage facilities being operated by major fish importers. During the inspection, many of the importers/operators of the cold rooms abandoned their facilities, leaving behind only supervisors and menial workers, who were in no position to give material information on the products held in the facilities.   Against that background, the Minister directed acting director of fisheries in the Ministry, Mrs Foluke Areola, to mobilise officials to all facilities in order to undertake a physical count of all such facilities, as well as conduct laboratory tests on products found in t...

Agric Minister scores FG’s rice policy high; defends new tariff regime Tue, Apr 01, 2014 Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina says Federal Government’s policy on rice, a core strategy under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) has succeeded beyond all expectations and that the proposed tariff regime on the commodity is needed to protect local investors in rice, including farmers and millers, as well as create jobs and wealth for Nigerians.   The Minister made the assertion recently during his presentation at the National Assembly public hearing on rice policy.   Adesina posited that Nigeria had the capacity to become not only self-sufficient, but a net exporter of rice and that the Federal Government and forward looking stakeholders in the rice sector are determined to reduce the ridiculously high foreign exchange of over N365 billion being spent annually on rice import.   According to the Minis...