{"id":176345,"date":"2024-07-11T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T06:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-agric-minister-confirms-duty-free-importation-of-beans-wheat-rice\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T06:46:07","slug":"nigerias-agric-minister-confirms-duty-free-importation-of-beans-wheat-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-agric-minister-confirms-duty-free-importation-of-beans-wheat-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Agric Minister Confirms Duty-Free Importation of Beans, Wheat, Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Mr Kyari also said the Nigerian government will massively import some food items in addition to allowing the duty-free importation of food.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Nigeria&#8217;s Minister of Agriculture, Abubakar Kyari, has confirmed that the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/officialABAT?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tinubu administration<\/a><\/strong> has suspended duties, tariffs and taxes for the importation of major food items like beans, wheat and husked brown rice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Mr Kyari, in a statement he shared on his X account, said the government has suspended &#8220;duties, tariffs, and taxes for the importation of certain&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407110071.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Kyari also said the Nigerian government will massively import some food items in addition to allowing the duty-free importation of food. Nigeria&#8217;s Minister of Agriculture, Abubakar Kyari, has confirmed that the Tinubu administration has suspended duties, tariffs and taxes for the importation of major food items like beans, wheat and husked brown rice. Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11963,30024,6824,37724,17840,5941,257,393,5761,5085,254,9904],"class_list":["post-176345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agric","tag-beans","tag-confirms","tag-dutyfree","tag-importation","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-rice","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wheat"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}