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Nigeria argues about rice in politics. AgriStock will only list rice as inventory: specified grain, specified unit, specified store. This page is the longer argument so the lot page in the app can stay numeric.
Imported finished rice and local paddy (and local milled) are not the same lot. Moisture, percent broken, bag weight, and mill origin change what you are holding. A listing that only says “rice” is a mood. A listing that says 50kg, mill, store, remaining bags is a desk.
Ofada and other local varieties have their own offtake. Do not price them as if they were the same SKU as a parboiled import brand. Buyers in wet markets already know. Software should not be stupider than the market.
Because it is the plate. Because borders and mills are political. Because every administration wants a sentence about self-sufficiency. Investors who swallow the sentence without the bag count will confuse policy with a warehouse.
AgriStock is not the Ministry of Agriculture. We will not list a national rice strategy as a commodity. We will list partner lots that can survive a count.
Harvest in producing states. Diesel to the store. FX if the supply is import-linked. Mill capacity and power. Storage discipline — rice that cakes or smells is not the lot you thought you bought. Theft and “missing bags” are operational risks, not chart patterns.
A listed miller or processor, if one appears on the agri tape, is still a company. Do not average its share quote into your bag price and call it a blended return.
If the live catalogue has no rice this week, this page is still true. Catalogue is operations. Thesis is this site.