Article(s) about Demand

Nigeria’s demand for wheat based foods is large and growing. The GON cassava flour import-substitution initiative is impacting U.S. wheat market share negatively but market share is expected to rebound as Nigeria and its neighboring countries continue to demand high quality wheat based food s [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria is a huge export market for wheat and rice. High demand for wheat flour for the production of bread, noodles, pasta and biscuits (cookies) contributes to Nigeria’s wheat market worth approximately $1 billion in U.S. to Nigeria exports. Domestic wheat production is [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria remains a huge export market for wheat with export value of U.S. wheat averaging $1 billion, about 85 percent share of the wheat market. The high demand is mostly pressured by increasing  consumption of wheat flour - based products  and insufficient [Read more]

Monetary policy works in part by altering credit flows. The use of legal reserve requirements provide monetary authorities with considerable leverage over the quantity of funds that banks may maintain, just as open market sales reduces the real quantity of deposits banks can issue. This in turn [Read more]

Report Highlights: Effective July 20, 2012, the Government of Nigeria (GON) introduced a 15-percent levy on wheat grain imports resulting in an increase of the effective duty from 5 percent to 20 percent. The GON also introduced a 65-percent levy on wheat flour imports to increase the effective [Read more]

Report Highlights: Although Nigeria dropped from the number one export destination in the world for U.S. wheat in MY2010/11 to third position this year, it remains the most consistent and loyal customer. Sales as of April1 are a record 3.5 million tons, up from 3.3 million tons last year. [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria's domestic production of soybeans is trending upwards, but still lags behind the rapidly growing demand from the poultry industry for soy meal and vegetable oil processors. This supply deficit resulted in the increase in the price of soybean meal within ten months, [Read more]

Report Highlights: Imported frozen fish (especially mackerel, herring and croaker) accounted for more than 800,000 tons (valued at $900 million) in 2009. Depending on fish availability, imports are expected to exceed one million tons by the end of 2010. The combination of low domestic production, [Read more]

In 1988, a British mountain climber named Joe Simpson wrote a book called Touching the Void, a harrowing account of near death in the Peruvian Andes. It got good reviews but, only a modest success it was soon forgotten. Then, a decade later, a strange thing happened. Jon Krakauer wrote Into Thin [Read more]