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Wheat is an important economic cereal crop used in the production of a wide range of foods and other products. However, due to low wheat production (< 1.5 ton/ha) in acidic soils, and the country’s total demand of about 240,000 metric tones as at 2010, is unable to be met. Acid soils generally...

Wheat is increasing becoming an important staple food crop in Zambia particularly in the urban and per-urban communities where shift in food tastes and preferences to wheat products has occurred. Production and yield are however severely limited by cost of irrigation water and nitrogen...