The Nigeria Renascent Group, a pressure Group on Food Security and Food Self-sufficiency, on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to encourage local rice producers to boost their production. There is so much uncertainty and cloudiness in rice industry because the government has failed to check the smuggling of rice into the country through the borders. This is preventing massive investments by private sector in the backward integration scheme of the government in producing our own local rice. The implication of continued smuggling of foreign rice through the boarders was that only few individuals and private firms would be involved in massive production of local rice.