The Horn of Africa country is the largest wheat producer on the continent, accounting for at least 65 percent of the total wheat production in sub-Saharan Africa, noted CIMMYT, which is Spanish for International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. CIMMYT is a non-profit organization that conducts research and training to improve maize and wheat production. Assisting Ethiopia to increase its wheat production is the African Development Bank. “It is designed to scale up and sustain the impressive results of the Wheat Revolution in Ethiopia,” Kamara said, according to world-grain.com. “Following the successful and nationwide deployment of heat-tolerant wheat varieties, irrigated wheat areas rapidly expanded, and wheat yields increased on average from 2 to 4 tons per hectare.
