Nigeria is trying to make Africa’s largest economy reliant on its own wheat production.
, has also made a deal with farmers to source more wheat locally at competitive prices, potentially encouraging growers to increase production.
Besides climate change creating irregular rainfall, extreme heat and dry land, “security challenges across the wheat-producing region restricts farmers’ access to fields," the USDA said in this year's Nigeria grain report.
He harvested enough wheat to fill 20 bags last year and 18 most recently — down from 35 two years ago.Farmers being unable to reach their fields amid the violence triggers “both human security and food security crises,” said Hassan of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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