Plans are underway by stakeholders in the rice production value chain to begin the manufacturing of rice wine, the National Secretary, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Dr Livinus Nwangwa has said. There is rice wine, and rice cake amongst other products. Rice wine goes through the same fermentation process wheat, sorghum and malt go through to make wine. What we see now is that foreigners buy our rice and repackage into foreign bags as ‘foreign rice’. Most of the imported rice in our markets are locally produced but re-bagged and rebranded as foreign rice.

Source: The Guardian May 08, 2022 10:30 UTC