Nigeria consumes 6m tons of wheat annually, farmers mill at half capacity— Minister

As country battles with 3.5m hectares of land for irrigated production.

Minister of State for Industry, John Owan Enoh, has disclosed that Nigeria consumes about six million metric tonnes of wheat annually, but its flour mills operate at roughly half of their production capacity.
He said Nigeria had between two million and 3.5 million hectares of land with potential for irrigated wheat production.
Enoh, who spoke yesterday in Abuja, at the unveiling of Project Wheat-ness, attributed the snags facing the country’s wheat-based food industry to rising energy costs, transportation expenses, global grain market pressures and inadequate domestic wheat supply.
The Minister explained th...