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Farmers under the auspices of Wheat Farmers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria said they have identified 77,000 hectares of farmland for dry season wheat cultivation.

The President of the Association Wing Comdr Shuaibu Hamza (Rtd) stated this recently during a meeting of Commodity Association Presidents in Abuja.

He said that already, there are over 20,000 farmers who are on standby for government to support in terms of inputs, finance, and security to begin cultivation this coming dry season. Hamza said Nigerian wheat production suffered serious setback when farmers were convinced to abandon the country’s local varieties of wheat when the colonialist arrived. He, however, said that current efforts by designated research institutes have developed four different varieties of wheat which have been tried in many locations and the results were satisfactory.

Nigeria beans farmers over the years have been atloss as they keep planting the same variety of beans which has long maturity time low yield as subceptible to pest attacks. with commercial release of this bean variety ,beans farmers in the country received the seed while the AATF trained extention Agent worked, directly with the farmers  in their fields.Nigeria Migbacknere Eugenia an extention worker of the African Agriculture Technologies foundation. Enugu state, The performance is very marvellous and the growth and encouraging the local variety .I Have contacted the head master of the school that cchildren dropped out of that  my kids are coming back as proceeds from planning to expand their farms because of the bumper harvest.