How Inclusion of Locally Produced Wheat in ‘GURASA’ Baking increased Market Demand of Wheat
Poor marketing is observed as a major challenge militating against the mass production of locally produced wheat at Biyamusu wheat production cluster. This was due to low patronage on the part of the consumers. Fortunately for the cluster, the support given to Kwanar Dala by APPEALS Project KNSCO increased demand for the local whole wheat grain across the state. The main challenge faced by the wheat farmers at Biyamusu, was that, most of their youth farmers had resorted to rural- urban migration the result of which many hectares of land become unutilized, according to Usman. This negatively affected the agricultural…
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