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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.