By Bashir Bello KANO — The African Development Bank programme, Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation, TAAT has clamoured for wheat farming revolution in Nigeria. “In Sudan, TAAT ...

Daily Post Nigeria. FG to commence 70,000 hectares dry season wheat ... An expected yield of 875,000 metric tonnes would be derived from the dry season wheat farming for storage in the country’s ...

Nigeria is trying to make Africa’s largest economy reliant on its own wheat production. Skip to main content.

The Wheat Farmers Association of Nigeria (WFAN) has assured of its preparedness to cultivate over 350,000 hectares to produce not less than one million metric tonnes in the 2022/2023 farming season.

He explained that President Bola Tinubu’s renewed agenda was aimed at making sure that Nigeria secured food production. He stated, “Jigawa State has shown a lot of interest in wheat farming by ...

For the over 2,000 wheat farmers in Jibia irrigation scheme of Katsina State, it was with nostalgia that they recount their bitter experiences from farming wheat last year.

One concern was that Nigeria’s wheat production has been so dismal. Colloborating this is data from the United States Department of Agriculture, which indicated that the country produced just 2. ...

Nigeria’s dependence on foreign imports to satisfy growing wheat consumption might face its biggest challenge yet due to Russia’s war with Ukraine. Bread, pasta, noodles, and semolina are ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — Abubakar Salisu was terrified when he discovered arid sand in the middle of his farmland, rendering a broad strip unfit for crops. Now, extreme heat is killing his wheat before ...