Nigeria: Emefiele's Devt Focus Wheat Production, Wheat Production

Recently, the Governor of the Central Bank Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh were in Kebbi State to inspect wheat and rice farms under the Anchor Borrowers Programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Led by the Governor of Kebbi, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu, Mr. Emefiele and the team carried an on-site assessment tour of some the large farms operated by the over 70,000 farmers being encouraged under the program.

Strip tillage helps increase wheat production

RANGPUR, Mar 24 (BSS): Experts at a farmers' field day have said adoption of the strip tillage method in sowing wheat seed using Power Tiller Operated Seeder (PTOS) machine substantially increases wheat production at reduced costs. Dinajpur Hub of International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) organised the event on Strip Tillage Wheat Production using PTOS machine in village Sundarban under Sadar upazila of Dinajpur on Wednesday afternoon.