Wheat
12 May 2019
The Nigerian wheat milling industry has the potential of creating over 10 million jobs across the value chains. Managing Director, Olam Grains, Nigeria Anurag Shukla, who disclosed this during Crown Flour Mills Customer’s Forum gala night, in Abuja, said the flour milling industry is one business that can provide employment, adding that Crown Flour…
14 Apr 2019
The National Eczema Association defines Eczema as “the name for a group of conditions that cause the skin to become red, itchy and inflamed.” Having eczema on the skin can be embarrassing and causes discomfort but experts say it can be managed. Dr. Shakirat Gold-Olufadi, Senior Registrar Dermatology and Genitourinary Medicine Unit Lagos University teaching…
13 Apr 2018
Dangote Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc and other key stakeholders in the flour milling industry have donated 50 units AMAR multi-crop threshers to wheat farmers in the country, as part of their commitment to aid self sufficiency in wheat production. The General Managing Director, Dangote Flour Mill Plc., Thabo Mabe, at the presentation of the…
8 Apr 2018
Dr Oliwasina Olabanji, the Team Leader, Wheat Value Change in Nigeria, says that Nigeria will reduce wheat importation by 60 per cent by 2025. Olabanji, who is the Executive Director, Lake Chad Research Institute, stated this on Sunday after inspection of wheat seed production farms in Ringim and Hadejia Local Government Areas of Jigawa. He…
5 Mar 2018
Whole grains are cereals or pseudocereal that contains the endosperm, germ, and bran. Examples of whole grains include whole wheat and whole wheat derivates, oats, brown rice, barley, corn, quinoa, rye, buckwheat, and millet. These foods might seem ordinary but they have a lasting effect on the body if consumed regularly. Here are some of…
24 Dec 2017
The Pioneer Vice Chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, (MOUAU), Abia State, Prof. Placid Njoku has challenged researchers at the institution to focus on how wheat, Onion, apple, lettuce, carrot, and sorghum can be massively produced in Abia and other states in the south east. He flayed academics “who sit and…
15 Dec 2017
President Muhammadu Buhari has said his government recorded huge success through the Anchors Borrowers’ Programme. The President disclosed that over 12.2 million farmers have joined the rice and wheat revolution while the country is moving close to self-sufficiency in major grains. Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,…
20 Apr 2017
Wheat growers in Nigeria’s northeast have abandoned their farms under the onslaught of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency, a setback for the country’s efforts to cut imports by boosting local production, a research agency said.
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