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NASC, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, others launch IMAGE to provide farmers quality seeds
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By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja
As the nation yearns to boost food security, availability, and affordability, the National Agricultural Seeds Council, NASC, in collaboration with Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation, and Content Global Development, Tuesday, launched Institutionalizing Monitoring of Crop Variety Adoption Using Genotyping programme, IMAGE, to provide farmers quality and original seeds for cultivation.
The launch was made by the Director-General, NASC, Philip Ojo, at the Physical Launch and Constitution of the National Executive Steering Committee of the IMAGE project in Nigeria.
Ojo in his remarks said the launch of IMAGE marks the end of a process that started in December 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya, which was the project proposal formulation phase.