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NACGRAB Says Nigeria Will Soon Witness Food Sufficiency, Price Reduction

The National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB) predicts an imminent increase in food sufficiency and a decline in prices across Nigeria.

Dr. Anthony Okere, the Acting Director of NACGRAB, affirmed this outlook following the conclusion of a 2023 Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on Seed For Resilience (SFR) in collaboration with the Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) held in Ibadan.

Established in 2021, the SFR aimed to optimize the NACGRAB genebank’s efficiency and facilitate the utilization of preserved genetic resources by farmers and various stakeholders in Nigeria.

Okere highlighted that the project successfully introduced a diverse range of crops such as sorghum and cowpea to farmers and users, aiming to combat the impact of climate change. This initiative aimed to bolster agricultural productivity, ensuring food security and improved nutrition throughout Nigeria.

Moreover, Okere emphasized the project’s success by citing positive feedback from farmers and users who reported significant yield increases from the superior quality seeds planted in the current season compared to those planted in 2022.

“Farmers now feeling free to come to NACGRAB genebank to demand more diversity of materials that could help them to get higher production which in turn would lead to food sufficiency and price reduction in Nigeria soon.

“There are availability of quality seeds in NACGRAB genebank that farmers can plant and generate good yield due to success of this project.

” Various farmers can now dwell in more crops instead of one or two crops; this project has made it possible for farmers to plant diversity of quality seeds and generate good yields which in turn will lead to food and nutrition security in Nigeria,” Okere said.

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