The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that Nigeria’s rice paddy production has increased thereby leading to the reduction in rice importation by 95 per cent in the last three years. The increase in paddy production also led to the Government saving about 5 million dollars per day. We have reduced the quantity of rice coming in through our ports by 95% which amounts to a saving of about 5 million dollars a day and all this happened between December 2015 and now. Nigeria is currently producing 5.8 million to 6 million tones of paddy rice and the number of paddy farmers in the country has risen from 5 million to 12.2 million and by the end of this planting season the number will increase to 9 million tons per annum by 2019.