Wheat
Global wheat prices, supply, and trade
Project WHEAT-NESS Targets Wheat Import Cut
The federal government has launched Project WHEAT-NESS, a 24-month programme to cut Nigeria's wheat import dependence by 10% to 15% within three years. Nigeria imports …
Shettima Forms Committee to Speed Farm Interventions
Vice President Kashim Shettima has set up a technical committee of federal ministries and agencies to fast-track interventions in wheat, other staple crops and livestock. …
Shettima Sets Up Committee on Wheat, Livestock
Vice President Kashim Shettima has set up a technical committee to fast-track federal interventions in wheat, other staple crops and livestock. Bank heads, seed and …
FG Sets Up Committee to Boost Wheat
Vice President Kashim Shettima has set up a technical committee to speed up wheat, staple crop and livestock production, pulling together three ministries and the …
Africa's Bank Pushes Farms Toward the Market
At the continent's biggest farming forum, the African Development Bank and African ministers argued that emergency food handouts have run their course, and that market-driven …
USDA Dims Nigeria's 2026 Grain Outlook
The US Department of Agriculture has trimmed its forecasts for Nigeria's 2026/27 rice and maize crops, citing high input costs, insecurity and reduced planting. It …
Research: One Country Holds Half the World's Grain Reserves
China holds 53% of the world's wheat, rice and maize reserves with 17% of its people. Meanwhile a Yemeni family pays $10.62 for a kilogramme …
Nigeria to Import More Maize as Farms Falter
Nigeria's grain harvest is slipping, and the country is set to buy far more from abroad to fill the gap. New forecasts point to maize …
The Ukraine War Reached Your Kitchen. It Did Not Get There Alone.
Retail wheat flour jumped 17.7 index points the month Russia invaded, and the median country paid 26% more by its 2022 peak. But cassava, a …
Saudi Arabia Buys Control of Olam Agri
A Saudi sovereign wealth arm, SALIC, has taken an 80% controlling stake in Olam Agri for $1.88bn, gaining a major player in Nigeria's rice, wheat, …
Cassava Angles for a Place in Bread
Nigeria grows more cassava than any country on earth, yet it still spends billions importing wheat for bread. A renewed push to put 20% high-quality …
Cheaper Flour, Same Costly Loaf
Flour prices have eased, but bread has not followed. Bakers say energy bills, multiple taxation and packaging costs have swallowed the savings, and industry leaders …
Black Sea Wheat Keeps Bread Cheap
A big Black Sea harvest is keeping global wheat prices in check in 2026, even as the United States heads for its smallest crop since …
Big Wheat Harvest, Stubborn Prices
The Black Sea is heading for another bumper wheat crop, yet world prices are refusing to fall the way a big harvest usually forces them …
Olam Rolls Out New Flour and Semolina Brands in Lagos
Olam Agri's wheat milling arm, Crown Flour Mill, has launched Mama's Choice Wheat Flour and Mama's Pride Semolina at customer sessions in Lagos. The company …
Cassava Giant, Export Minnow
Nigeria grows more cassava than any country on earth but captures barely 2% of the crop's $180 billion global processing market. Stakeholders say turning roots …
Senate Advances Three Food Security Bills: National Food Reserve Agency, Rice Council Board, and Mandatory Cassava Inclusion in Flour
The Senate has received committee reports on three agriculture bills aimed at cutting Nigeria's import dependence. The package includes a National Food Reserve Agency for …
Nigeria Launches First National Fertiliser Recommendation Manual in 14 Years, Covering Maize, Rice, Wheat, Cassava, and Cowpea
The National Agricultural Development Fund and the Farm Input Support Services have presented Nigeria's first harmonised national fertiliser recommendation guide since 2012 to Minister of …