African Development Bank helps Ethiopia work towards wheat self-sufficiency

The country is already a top African wheat producer, but there is potential for growth. Ethiopia is sub-Saharan Africa’s largest wheat producer, but a growing population is relocating to towns and cities and eating so much bread that demand for the grain outstrips what farmers can produce. That could be changing, thanks to an African Development Bank scheme called Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT), which offers new and better seeds that could make Ethiopia self-sufficient within five years. […] Read More