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Miller Ties High Price Of Rice To Flood
The Chairman, Abakaliki Rice Mill Owners Industrial Association, Mr Joseph Ununu, on Saturday in Abakaliki, said the price of rice had risen in Ebonyi as a result of the flood.
Ununu told newsmen that price of rice would continue to rise as a result of the flood that ravaged most rice farms in the state.
He described the effect of the flood disaster as terrible; saying that majority of rice farmers in the state had their rice farms completely washed away by the flood.
He said that a bushel of rice which was sold for as low as N2, 000 in November 2011 and the highest quality sold for between N2, 500 and N3, 000. now sells between N3, 600 and N4, 000, depending on the variety.
Ununu said that the low quality ones were now selling for between N2, 800 and N3, 400.
He said that the best improved varieties known as “fero44’’, “fero52’’ and “fero57’’ long grain rice was now selling for N4, 500.
“We have never experienced this type of situation where the price of rice is so high in the month of November.
“November is usually a peak period in rice harvesting and sales but the reverse is the case in 2012 because of the flood.
“The rice mill complex this period is usually filled to capacity with buyers and sellers of the commodity but you can see there are only a handful of them,’’ he said.
The chairman maintained that there would be shortage in the supply of the commodity in view of the destruction caused by flooding which ultimately would lead to more increase in the price of rice.
Some farmers – Elias Nwogu, Samuel Ogodo, Albert Onwe, John Ugbala, Pius Nwauruku and Sunday Eje decried the rising cost of the commodity which they blamed on low production.
“It has never been this bad before that a bushel of rice will sell above N3, 000 in November; it is indeed affecting business,’’ Nwogu said.
“ Most traders could not afford to buy the product at prevailing market price,’’ Ogodo said.
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