date:Jul 15, 2013
Nigeria remains a huge export market for wheat with export value of US wheat averaging $1 billion, about 85 per cent share of the wheat market. The high demand is mostly pressured by increasing consumption of wheat flour-based products and insufficient domestic substitutes.
The Government of Nigeria (GON) efforts at becoming a major wheat-producing country since 1959 have still not been attained and domestic wheat production has remained at 50,000 metric tons out of 3.7 million metric tons it c