No fewer than 1,600 Nigerian farmers drawn from Kano and Borno states have benefitted from the IITA/Support to Agricultural Research for Development of Strategic Crops (SARD-SC) wheat initiative programme.
They were among farmers drawn from 11 countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
The IITA/SARD-SC Project coordinator, Dr Chrys Akem, said in a statement in Ibadan yesterday, that within two years of the inception of the SARD-SC project, the wheat component had mobilised a fast-tracked seed multiplication programme and distributed 58 tons of improved seed that have been grown over 500 hectares of wheat areas in six innovation platform sites across two states in Nigeria (Kano and Borno).
According to him, the SARD-SC wheat project provided two tons of improved seeds of Norman and Attila-Gan-Attila wheat varieties to the Mauritanian team as part of contributions to the preparation the Regional DRFCA staff were making for planting these and other improved varieties in the nearest future.
Source: Leadership
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