date:Jul 15, 2013
onsumes per year.
The countrys wheat milling capacity is about 8.0 million tons with capacity utilization at approximately 50 per cent.
Although not permitted, wheat flour and other wheat-based products from Nigeria worth much more than 400,000 metric tons are also informally exported to its neighboring countries while the GON have continued to introduce measures such as high levies, to cut back on wheat imports.
With the countrys current position in wheat milling within Sub-Sahara Africa, Ni