President Muhammadu Buhari has renewed the appointment of Dr Olusegun Ojo as the Director-General, National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC). The Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, made this known in statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. NAN reports that Ojo was first appointed in May 2015, at…

Director General, National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC), Dr. Olusegun Ojo, who unveiled the application at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Oyo State, said the initiative was to eliminate proxy certification...

Scientists and Agricultural experts in Nigeria are currently partnering on developing a sustainable cassava seed system to solve the problem of low productivity of the crop in the country. An agric expert, Dr Hemant Nitturkar, said this on Friday, at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, during the annual meeting of the project…

To fully domesticate the development of Genetically Modified crop in the country, the Nigerian Agriculture Seed Council (NASC) has called for the need to scale up funding for agricultural biotechnology in the country.

Towards ensuring availability of certified quality Cassava seeds, the National Seed Council  (NASC)  in collaboration with the International Institute ...