Nigeria, Africa’s largest buyer of wheat, is partnering with food company Olam International Ltd. to develop seed varieties of the grain that are suitable for its climate, which will boost local ...

About 688,793 metric tonnes of bulk wheat have been scheduled for imports and to be supplied to food markets across the country by the end of October 2024. This significant influx of wheat is ...

Wheat normally requires heat, but in the past three years, farmers in Nigeria's far north, part of Africa's Sahel region that largely produces the country's homegrown food, have seen an "alarming ...

As war in Ukraine strangles global wheat ... processed foods. Much Ukrainian wheat can't be exported due to Russia's blockade of its Black Sea portsImage: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images Wheat's ...

has revealed that 118,000 hectares of wheat have been cultivated across 11 states to tackle food scarcity. The minister also said Nigeria is not at risk of food scarcity. He made this disclosure ...

Nigeria’s importation of food and agricultural products from the US only averaged $537 million in the last five years, with about 70 per cent of that wheat. In 2020, Nigeria imported 1.29 ...

Food prices ... I know wheat is difficult to grow. Rabiu: Wheat is difficult to grow but we are also into sugar and we’re building the most advanced sugar plantation in Nigeria.

LAGOS, July 8 (Reuters) - Nigeria plans to suspend taxes on certain food imports including wheat and maize for 150-days, and recommend a retail price to try to bring under control rising prices in ...

Wheat normally requires heat, but in the last three years, farmers in Nigeria’s far north, part of Africa’s Sahel region that largely produces the country’s homegrown food, have seen an ...

He stated that President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda was aimed at making sure that Nigeria increases food production from next month with wheat farming coming up in the dry season.