Nigeria Will Soon Witness Food Sufficiency, Price Reduction –NACGRAB

Posted by African Examiner Business News, Featured, Latest Headlines Sunday, December 31st, 2023

Alamu said that farmers in Oyo, Niger and Kano states had been exposed to diversity of seeds of cowpea, sorghum accessions and other seeds conserved in the genebank.

The National Centre For Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB), says Nigeria will soon witness sufficiency and price reduction in food commodities.

The NACGRAB Acting Director, Dr Anthony Okere, stated this at the end of a 2023 Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on Seed For Resilience (SFR) organised by NACGRAB in collaboration with Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) in Ibadan.

He said SFR came into existence in 2021 to improve the efficiency of the NACGRAB gene bank and enhance the use of conserved gene pools by farmers and other users of genetic resources in Nigeria.