A landmark achievement for Nigeria’s agriculture was marked when bread made from 100 per cent Nigerian wheat was launched. The bread made from better adaptable breeds of wheat that produce more than twice per hectare of what was tried in the ’80s signaled a major break in Nigeria’s agricultural revolution and quest for food self sufficiency. The story is in pictures below as captured by our special correspondent’s lenses:
Pic 1: Executive Director of Lake Chad Research Institute, Dr. Oluwasina Gbenga Olabanji (left), Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Chairman of House Committee of Agriculture, Mohammed Tahir Monguno and Minister of State for Agriculture, Mrs. Asabe Asmau Ahmed, on a wheat farm in Kadawa, Kano State, on Tuesday.
Pics 2, 3, 5 & 6: Farmer and owner of the wheat farm field, Aliyu Abdullahi.
Pics 4 & 5: Minister of State (left), Farmers’ group leader in Kano State, Yusuf Nadabo, Minister, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture and Farmer Yusuf Abdullahi on Abdullahi’s wheat farm…At bottom, it was time to take a bite…Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina (right), tasting bread made from 100 per cent Nigerian wheat variety at Kadawa, Kano State, on Tuesday. With him are Minister of State for Agriculture, Mrs. Asmau Asabe Ahmed and House Chairman on Agriculture, Mohammed Tahir Monguno.
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