According to Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Water resources, Alhaji Abba Ruma , the Nigerian government has taken a proactive step to ensure that the world wide shortage of rice production does not impact on Nigerians too adversely as it is to facilitate the provision of land to major world land farmer to farm in Nigeria.

The minister also said that the government was also intending to adjust import levies to reflect current challenges in development of local production while also expanding the rice value chain.