AreaNigeria

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date18/05/2022

Policy CategoryProduction

Policy InstrumentSector policy framework

DescriptionLaunched the National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Policy (NATIP), a six-year framework seeking to address critical challenges faced by Nigerian agriculture and to lay a foundation to modernize the sector via public and private sector investment. Built around ten intervention pillars, the objective of NATIP is to fast-track the development of the agricultural sector through increased productivity, adoption of technology, import substitution (with particular emphasis on the reduction of rice, dairy and meat imports), increased resilience and strengthening of value chains for priority crops, including rice.