Food sufficiency: Crown Flour Mill pledges support for FG –
A major player in the wheat milling industry in Nigeria and a subsidiary of Olam Group, Crown Flour Mill (CFM), has reiterated its commitment to assist the Federal Government of Nigeria achieve sustainable food sufficiency in the country. The plan was revealed when the Wheat Development Team of CFM, led by Damilola Adeniyi, the Corporate Affairs Manager and Moshood Quadri, Head, Human Resources, along with other senior management staff of the company were on a courtesy visit to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Sabo Nanono, in his office recently in Abuja. Adeniyi stated that the company’s management decided to visit the minister to intimate the ministry of the company’s commitment to build Nigeria’s wheat growing capacity by bringing in new seed varieties and innovative ways of agriculture. CFM is looking to partner with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), state governments and other major stakeholders in the agricultural sub-sector to achieve the objective. She said the company plans to introduce the findings of research trials and cultivation of a heat-tolerant durum wheat variety carried out by the company in Senegal into Nigeria.
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