Minister of Agriculture, Abubakar Kyari, has given a five-year deadline for Nigeria to end the importation of wheat which he says is gulping the country’s foreign reserves.
Kyari who spoke to journalists after inspecting assorted seed wheat productions in Kano on Friday, expressed satisfaction that the local production was the vital component of the farming, noting that efforts being made by the Federal Government would end the importation of wheat seeds in the next four to five years.
The Minister added that the FG had worked out strategies to give out 50 per cent subsidy to wheat farmers in the upcoming dry farming season to ensure massive production of the grain in the country.
