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By Nimat Otori
Members of the National Agricultural Seeds Advocacy Group, NASAG, have called for a Plant Breeders Protection Law that will protect the rights of breeders in the country.
Speaking during a zoom conference on the seed sector of the agricultural industry recently, Celestine Okeke, a Lead partner, Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Initiative, said in the absence of a law protecting the rights of breeders in Nigeria, “plant breeders both in the public and private sectors have remained non-committal towards investing in plant breeding as there is no guarantee that their rights will be recognized and respected.
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As the Buhari-led administration harps on diversifying the economy through agriculture, the National Agricultural Seed Council, NASC, has maintained that Plant Variety Protection Law remains critical to food security