Nigerian agricultural seed agency unveils five-year plan
At the public presentation of the document in Abuja on Friday, the Director-General of the agency, Philp Ojo, said it aims at strengthening the capacity of the council in coordinating and regulating the Nigerian seed industry.Mr Ojo said without a comprehensive policy direction, the council, as the apex regulatory body at the centre of Nigeria’s seed sector, would face serious challenges in achieving its mandate.
The representative of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group , Dolapo Enejo, said the strategic plan document will focus on technology and digitisation to ensure that smallholder farmers were carried along. “If you are looking at the Seedcodex today, reviewing and trying to validate the strategy plan, you will see that it is leveraging on technology and leveraging on digitisation to ensure that they create a globally competitive economy and to ensure that everyone is carried along; not just the medium and large scale farmers, but the smallholder is the major priority,” she said.
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