wheat production

The Flour Milling Association of Nigeria (FMAN) says it is cultivating 4,000 hectares of land for wheat production across the country in its 2022- 2023 programme. The National Programme Manager, FMAN Wheat Development Project, Dr Aliyu…

Stakeholders in Nigeria’s agricultural sector have said only quality seeds should be used for farming to achieve food security, especially in wheat production. Both local and international agriculture experts stated this during a webinar…

The Lagos Commodities and Futures Exchange (LCFE)  announced a partnership with Heritage Bank to create a structure for trading on wheat contracts and its allied products. The Managing Director, LCFE, Mr Akin Akeredolu-Ale, disclosed…

OCP Nigeria Fertilisers has partnered with the Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI), Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IART), and Bayero University Kano (BUK) in a major move to raise national wheat production and boost…

Despite faced with an acute FX shortage, Nigeria still spends millions of dollars yearly on the importation of wheat grain to bridge its huge demand-supply gap. Wheat production in Africa’s most populous country has remained low and…

A host of stakeholders from private and public sectors in the agricultural value chain gathered virtually to chart the path forward on the declining state of wheat production in Nigeria. The webinar themed; “Deepening the Wheat farming…