Olam Agri and Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI) have further underlined their commitment to helping Nigeria toward greater wheat production self-sufficiency and food security with the release of a novel heat-tolerant and super-early durum wheat variety suitable for local cultivation during the harmattan season.
This release signals another milestone achievement for Olam Agri’s “Seed for the Future (SFTF)” flagship project that was launched in 2021. The initiative is focused on removing hurdles to wheat production self-sufficiency in the country. It prioritises developing and cultivating seed varieties that suit the country’s unique topographic and climatic conditions and training a wide range of smallholder farmers on modern agronomic practices, with a stronger focus on empowering rural women.
The Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI) achieved its first-year milestone of producing 10 kg of pre-multiplication wheat seed varieties in September 2022 and this…