Utilizing a spatial multi-market model for rice in Nigeria that explicitly takes into account the potential for … smuggling, in this paper we analyze the welfare implications of alternative rice tariff rates given the government's goals of … parts of the country. Results show that tariff rates that exceed about 40 percent introduce some smuggling of rice through …

The Rice Liberalization Act (RA 11203), signed last February 2019, reverses decades-long placing quantitative … restrictions on rice importation administered by the National Food Authority. The Act goes further by dismantling interventionist … policy in the rice industry by divesting the Authority of its regulatory powers. The policy has been controversial, with some …

This paper presents a literature-informed and data-driven critique of the Rice Tariffication policy in the Philippines …, in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic that has already disrupted rice supplies and hiked rice prices globally. Gaps in the … surveyed literature are complemented by discussing the rationale of rice self-sufficiency in an increasingly volatile …

Rice is a staple crop in Nigeria. Even with a push to increase domestic production, little is known about the … functionality of Nigeria's open bag markets and the preferences of consumers for specific rice attributes. Our study uses a hedonic … Nigerian consumers prefer rice with homogenous long slender kernels and a low presence of broken rice and are indifferent to …

In The Nigerian Rice Economy the authors assess three options for reducing this dependency - tariffs and other trade … policies; increasing domestic rice production; and improving post-harvest rice processing and marketing - and identify improved …, and electricity), and rice milling technologies. …