Dr. Muazu Abdulkadir, Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria paid a courtesy visit to NASC Headquarters, Sheda, FCT on Tuesday January 14, 2020 and was accompanied by Mrs. Babangida, Director FDA. He was received by Dr. Phillip Ojo, DG NASC and the management team. The PS was taken on a tour […]
A training on 3rd Party Certification under the BASICS (Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava Seed System) Project was held in Makurdi, Benue State. Third Party Certification involves the use of trained and licensed private agents to carry out seed field inspection, certification under NASC supervision. The Amended Seed Act 2019 allows NASC to use […]
The 2019 Seed Fair & Farmers’ Field Day was held at the NASC Headquarters, Sheda, on Thursday October 17, 2019. The event was chaired by the Hon. Minister of Agriculture & Rural Development, Alh. Muhammad Sabo Nanono; where he charged Research Institutes to develop crops that can thrive without excessive use of chemicals so that […]
NASC has presented stakeholders with a 5 year Strategic Plan Document which it wants to use in revitalizing the seed sub-sector in Nigeria. Seed which is the foundation of agriculture has been a major challenge the Nigeria agricultural sector is facing, as fake and uncertified seeds are visible in the open market. Dr. Phillip Ojo, […]
The mandate of NASC, to regulate the production, marketing, trade and use of seeds in Nigeria is being achieved through the upgrade of seed certification and quality control from the conventional analogue method to digital certification; with a new innovation known as the National Seed Tracker (NST) recently launched at the SeedConnect 2019. This will […]
In recognition of the Council’s contribution to agriculture in Nigeria, NASC won an award at the Agricultural Value Chain (AVC) Award Night organized by The Nigeria Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) on May 23, 2019, held at Statement Hotel, Abuja. The award won was under the category Champion of Smallholder Agriculture – […]