Article(s) about Production

Report Highlights: Sugar production is expected to remain relatively flat at 70,000 tons, which signals limited progress of Nigeria’s backward integration plans for sugar production. Raw sugar imports are estimated to decline marginally by three percent, largely due to limited availability [Read more]

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’s sugar refining capacity, estimated at 2.1 million tons, exceeds the country’s current total demand of 1.45 million tons. The country’s sugar refineries depend almost exclusively on brown sugar from Brazil at five percent duty. This situation has [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]

The Government of Nigeria has banned imports of packaged sugar, granulated and in cubes, beginning January 2013. Nigeria’s Trade and Investment Minister, Dr. Olusegun Aganga, said this was in line with the Nigerian Sugar Master Plan which aims at achieving self-sufficiency in the [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: The GON has announced plans to cut wheat imports by introducing a new policy compelling cassava flour inclusion in wheat flour. Part of their plan is to impose a levy of 15 percent on wheat grain imports, which will increase the effective duty from 5 percent to 20 percent. The [Read more]

Report Highlights: The Government of Nigeria (GON) has resolved to encourage domestic rice production by restricting rice imports to conserve foreign exchange. Rice importers now import rice from India following the recent reentry of that country into the non-basmati rice trade. Post: Lagos [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria's grain production this year is up slightly from the average crop of 2010. Farmers increased average and rainfall patterns were near ideal for the growing season. The arrival of the new crop in the market has not brought any respite to poultry producers as grain [Read more]