Daily Trust - Why we must address food price instability – CBN
Emefiele, whose message was delivered by Mr Edward Adamu, CBN’s Deputy Governor, Corporate Services, noted that “With a population of about 200 million people, importation of any major food item will continually drain the country’s external reserves, export our jobs to countries where those food items are produced and distort our commodity value chains as we will not be able to guarantee the supply of raw materials for the agro-allied companies.’’ The CBN governor, who stressed the commitment of the present administration to attain self-sufficiency in rice production by the end of 2...