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| African Development Bank (AFDB) President, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina |
Between 27th
February- 2nd March, 2017, Nigeria wheat value chain under the implementation
and coordination of Lake Chad Research Institute( LCRI) in collaboration with
ICARDA will give award to the African Development Bank (AFDB) President, Dr.
Akinwunmi Adesina and some other farmers just as
achievements towards import
substitution of $4 billion annually will be show case to the cross section of
the 12 participating African countries in the Support to Agricultural Research
for Development of Strategic Crops (SARD-SC) in Africa.
The
conference that will be held in Abuja is expected to give award of recognition
to Dr. Adesina, former Agriculture Minister along with other farmers for their
excellent performance for the resuscitation of wheat production acceleration
towards import substitution in the country.
In the
letters of invitation signed by the Executive Director LCRI, Dr Oluwasina Olabanji,
it was stated that “the objective of the conference is to summarize and
document the major project achievements to the attention of project
stakeholders and participants from twelve participating countries in Africa,
including African Development Bank (AFDB) financing the project”
Dr. Olabanji
said that SARD-SC wheat project is meant to raise productivity in low income
sub-Saharan African countries so as to curb expenses on import and improving
food security and livelihood in Nigeria and Africa as a whole, and the project
is been funded by African Development Bank adding the rate at which states and
farmers are accepting the production of wheat is quite interesting to showcase.
LCRI ED pointed that wheat consumption is rising rapidly in
Sub Saharan Africa and import accounts for 70% of the region’ needs. Change is
needed to protect ordinary Africans from the vagaries of global commodity
markets and strengthen the continent’s wheat security adding currently Nigeria
imports four million metric ton of wheat spending $4 billion every year that is
expected to reach $10 billion by 2030 with consumption increasing to ten
million metric.
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