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About $6.1 billion is spent yearly to import wheat into Nigeria according to the Wheat Farmers Association of Nigeria.

Wheat is the only grain that is yet to record significant progress since 2011, with many farmers now going out of production. Despite being high in demand, successive administrations in Nigeria failed to improve its production, prompting some farmers to call it “political crop” because they believe its neglect is political; not economical. Statistics from World-Grain show that in 2017 Nigerian wheat was valued at $15.5m, up from $13m in 2016. The figure increased to $16m in 2018 and a further increase in production to the value of $16.3m.

Speaking to a press conference on Thursday 22, 2021 in Abuja the president of  the wheat association Alhaji Salim Muhammad, while issuing a report on the state of  the wheat in the country hailed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over  various …