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| Executive Director, Lake Chad Research Institute, Dr. Oluwasina Olabanji |
The Executive Director, Lake Chad Research Institute,
Dr. Oluwasina Olabanji has said that Kaduna state Government in its economic
diversification is about to finish planting five thousand hectares of wheat to
upscale productivity towards substituting import bill of four billion annually
expended by the Federal government..
Dr. Olabanji who expressed his delight about the decision
of Kaduna state government under the leadership of Governor El Rufia to embark
on wheat production of about five hectare out of the initial plan of 50
hectares saying the acceleration production of the crop through anchor borrower
programme that ensured off takers would proffer solution to our high import
bill in short distant time to come in the country stated that the seed planted
was supplied by his Institute with best agronomics provision to farmers.
Dr. Olabanji said the Governor of
Kaduna has expressed interest to invest in the wheat cultivation despite that
the state was not among the first pilot states under the Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN) anchor borrower programme, adding the planting has already commenced
to meeting the dry season planting for processing to high quality wheat flour
to checkmate import.
According to Dr. Olabanji “Nigeria
for instance currently imports four million metric tons of wheat, spending $44
billion on the commodity every year, a figure that is expected to reach $10
billion by 2030 as Nigerians are predicted to consume over ten million tons of
imported wheat to satisfy their growing demand for non-traditional foods like
pasta, noodles and bread”.
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