The National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) has presented approval certificates to 125 community-based seed producers in the North West as part of attempts to improve seed quality. Speaking during the certificate presentation at the International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Kano, NASC’s North West Coordinator, Ubandoma Hudu Muhammad, said the certificate presentation […]
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The National Agricultural Seeds Council has commenced the implementation of Plant Variety Protection Act 2021, with the aim of protecting intellectual properties, protection for plants and to ensure food productivity.
On May 21, 2021, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), signed the PVP Bill into law after it was passed by the House of Representatives on December 17, 2020 and the Senate on March 3, 2021 following several months of deliberation.
Recently, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group said the implementation of the Plant Variety Protection Act would help Nigeria to generate over $2bn from seeds export.
Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, the Director-General, NASC, Philip Ojo, said the council was set to implement the Act.
My last article on this column titled ‘Open Grazing: A failure of imagination’ generated many interesting comments. While majority of my commenters agreed with my opinion and provided further valuable insights, others saw it as ‘riding the wave’ of anti-Fulani sentiment. One of them went as far as equating my opinion and advocacy for the […]
As Nigeria continues to fashion out ways to improve on food production and be self-sufficient along various value chains, The Building an Economically Sustainable and Integrated Cassava Seed System, Phase II (BASICS-II) project, Tuesday, held the first Cassava Seed Business Summit 2021
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