The Federal Government through the National Agricultural Seed Council on Thursday commenced training farmers and other stakeholders in quality assurance and crop certification.
Speaking at the training, which held in Jos ,Plateau State, the acting Director General of the National Agricultural Seed Council, Dr Khalid Ishiaku, said the Federal Government, through the council, was determined to protect the farmers and rid the country of any form of adulterated agricultural seeds.
According to him, the training project which is being carried out across the country, under the Programme for Seed System Innovation for Vegetatively-propagated crops in Africa, aims to enhance the efficiency of the targeted crops seed system and improve food security in Nigeria
Ishiaku said, “We have a challenge in Nigeria that we really need to solve, which has to do with getting vegetatively propagated crops into the formal certification system.
“So, there is a need to develop these crops like cassava, potatoes, banana, plantain, which we use their vegetative parts for the next generation and create the process of decentralising the quality assurance for minimum standard. And that is why we are conducting this training for field inspectors or third-party certification officers to help in the certification process and bring it closer to the farmers.”
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