INVITATION TO ATTEND A THREE DAY CAPACITY BUILDING TRAINING ON PRINCIPLES AND PRACTISE OF SEED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY IN ATTAINING QUALITY ASSURANCE
The National Agricultural Seed Council is inviting your organization to a three-day capacity building training titled: Principles and Practice of Seed Production Technology in attaining Quality Assurance. This training will prepare your technical staffs for the task ahead in meeting up with the quality standard set by the Council with respect to quality assurances of the seeds being produced. This training will be essential for the smooth operation of the newly accredited seed companies.
Request for Quotation (RFQ) for Provision of Consultancy for the development of an online seed market information management system for the provision of information on Early Generation Seeds (EGS) and management of supply and demand for quality seeds in Nigeria RFQ Number: NASC-SEEDAN- AGRA/SMIMS-2022-JUL
The National Agricultural Seeds Council is seeking the services of interested and qualified consultants to submit their Request for Quotation (RFQ) for the development of an online seed market information management system for the provision of information on Early Generation Seeds (EGS) and management of supply and demand for quality seeds in Nigeria. The Consultant will work to implement the assignment with the support of the NASC HQ and Project Team.
The deadline for the submission of Tender shall not be later than 12 noon of Tuesday 19th July 2022 at the Office of the Director General, National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) Kilometer 29 Abuja-Lokoja Expressway, Sheda, Federal Capital Territory.
All communications regarding this solicitation shall be directed to the appropriate parties at NASC via [email protected] .
Follow the link below to download the advert
https://seedcouncil.gov.ng/uploads/2022/07/BID-ADVERT-NATIONAL-SEED-INFORMATION-MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM.pdf
Request for Quotation (RFQ) for Supply of Laboratory Equipment for the upgrade of two National Agricultural Seeds Council Laboratories to meet International Seed TESTING Association (ISTA) Laboratory Standard RFQ Number: NASC SEEDAN-AGRA/LABEQUIP-2022-JUL
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (“AGRA”) under the “Building capacity of NASC and Seed Companies to support a robust Seed System in Nigeria” is providing support for equipping two laboratories within National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) of Nigeria with state-of-the-art equipment capable of making these laboratories to meet International Seed Testing Association (“ISTA”) accreditation. This support will further assist Seed Entrepreneurs Association of Nigeria (SEEDAN) members in meeting the quality requirement of NASC and ISTA to produce seeds fit for both local and international trade.
The National Agricultural Seeds Council is seeking the services of qualified seed laboratory equipment suppliers to submit tenders with respect to the RFQ.
The deadline for the submission of Tender should not be later than 12 noon of Wednesday 10th August 2022 at the Office of the Director General, National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) Kilometer 29 Abuja- Lokoja Expressway, Sheda, Federal Capital Territory.
All communications regarding this solicitation shall be directed to the appropriate parties at NASC via [email protected] .
Follow the link below to download the advert
https://seedcouncil.gov.ng/uploads/2022/07/NASC-Lab-equipment-TOR-2022-2.pdf
NASC set to hold SeedConnect AFRICA Conference and Exhibition 2021
The National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) in partnership with Wandieville Media is organizing the SeedConnect Africa 2021 Conference and Exhibition. The SeedConnect, an annual event brings together relevant stakeholders in the seed industry to interact, discuss and chart a promising path towards the growth and development of the seed industry. SeedConnect serves as a platform for all relevant stakeholders in the seed industry to share their knowledge and experience in their years of doing business in the industry, exhibit and showcase their products, and harness opportunities for networking and partnership. The theme of this year’s event is “Strengthening Resilience through Partnership for a Robust Seed System in Nigeria” which is scheduled to hold at NAF Conference Centre Abuja on the 29th and 30th of November, 2021.
You are all cordially invited to be part of this great event.
Ido Verhagen
Ido Verhagen is the executive director of the Access to Seeds Index. Since its start in 2013, the Index has grown out to a unique resource for information on how the seed industry is supporting smallholder farmer productivity, one of the main targets on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda. The 2019 Index includes an evaluation of 60 seed companies across 65 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Prior to starting up the Access to Seeds Index, Ido worked as a sustainability advisor for Dutch multinationals like Philips, Heineken and KLM.
Dr. Ebegba Rufus Eseoghene
Dr. Rufus Ebegba Hails from Delta State, Married with children. He is the Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Biosafety Management Agency. He holds a B.Sc.(Agriculture), M.Sc.(Environmental Biology) and subsequently awarded a Ph.D (Biodiversity). He also attended various short courses in Administration, biodiversity Conservation, Biotechnology and Biosafety. He began his career working as Administrative Officer at the defunct Centre for Democratic Studies, Abuja 1990-1996. He moved to FEPA, where he worked as the Principal Environmental Scientist 1996-1999. He was later appointed Assistant Chief Environmental Scientist at the Federal Ministry of Environment 1999-2005; was Chief Environment Scientist 2005-2008; Assistant Director 2008-2012; and Deputy Director 2012-2015 before being appointed the Director General/CEO of the National Biosafety Management Agency. He has over 27 years of working experience in the areas of Administration, Biosafety Management, Biodiversity Conservation and sustainable utilization of renewable natural recourses, Strategic planning in Biosafety and Biodiversity. Currently, he is also the National Project Coordinator, UNEP-GEF National Biosafety Framework Implementation Project in Nigeria; the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety National Focal Point for Nigeria; a member of the Expert Committee of West African Biosafety Regulation and a former member of the Ad-hoc Technical Expert Group on Biosafety Risk Assessment and Risk Management of the Convention on Biological Diversity of the United Nations.. He has special Competence in the following fields: Administration, Biosafety Regulation(Risk Assessment/Management,) and policy BCH Administration Biodiversity Conservation (National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan , Wetlands Conservation, Bio-prospecting Environmental Impact Assessment Economic Value of Natural Resources Natural Resources Development and Utilization. Expert in development and implementation of Projects. Community leadership Dr. Ebegba was involved in the development of Nigeria National Biotechnology Policy, Nigeria National Biosafety Framework(Biosafety Policy and Policy) under the UNEP/GEF Development of National Biosafety Framework Project; the Nigeria National Biosafety Risk Assessment Analysis Framework; the Nigeria National Biosafety Application Management guidelines, Draft National Biosafety Regulations, National Biosafety Containment Guidelines, National Biosafety Communication Strategy and the last edition of the Nigeria Biosafety Guidelines, to name a few. Dr. Ebegba has participated in organizing and attended many workshops and meetings. He has worked closely with the UN and African Union Biodiversity, biosafety systems and Program for Biosafety systems. He has over 100 Various Publication on Biosafety, Biodiversity Conservation and Environmental Management. He has travelled widely internationally. He has received awards for hard work and service to humanity.
Mrs. Karima I. Babangida
Mrs. Karima I. Babangida, is Director, Federal Department of Agricultural Extension (FDAE). In this capacity she provides leadership in agricultural extension development and delivery in the country. Her duties also involve gender mainstreaming, policy formulation, development and implementation of programs on empowerment of women, youth and vulnerable groups in agriculture.
She is the Agric Focal Lead for Growing Girls and Women in Nigeria (GWIN), a special intervention programme targeting economic empowerment of women financed by the Federal Government. She led the team that prepared the Youth Employment in Agriculture Programme (YEAP) under technical assistance of FAO and served as National Project Coordinator for the FAO assisted Strengthening Capacity to Implement the Youth Employment in Agriculture Programme (YEAP).
Prior to this assignment, she worked in Agro-Processing and Marketing Department where she served as the Assistant Coordinator of Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) Initiative, a continent-wide Japanese Government assisted programme that produced the National Rice Development Strategy (NRDS) document that laid the foundation for the Rice Transformation Agenda of the nation. She served as the Assistant Coordinator for the Rice Post Harvest, Processing and Marketing Project (RIPPMAP) in Nasarawa and Niger States funded by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA). She also worked with the Japanese Government Consultant to conduct a countrywide study on rice prior to the commencement of RIPPMAP. Before then, she worked in Federal Department of Agriculture (FDA) on Japanese KR-2 Project, Conservation Tillage Farming Rice Box Project, and National Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS). She served as the Secretary for Presidential Initiative on Rice from 2001 to 2003 and represented the Ministry in the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Rice Price Benchmarking for 5 years. Mrs. Karima I. Babangida is an agronomist and alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.
Hemant Nitturkar
Hemant Nitturkar is an entrepreneur, a business mentor and a tri-sector professional with multi-domain, multi country work experience. Over the past 2 ½ decades, he has worked in agriculture, IT and financial services sectors and in the government, private sector and civil society organisations. He is a two-time recipient of the Governor’s Gold Medals from the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad for his academic achievement in BSc (Agriculture) and MSc (Genetics and Plant Breeding). He holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance from Securities Institute of Australia.
He strongly feels the world community has a window of maximum 15 years to create an ecosystem that can provide meaningful economic opportunities for the teeming youth, else we face a demographic catastrophe instead of enjoying a demographic dividend. Hence, he is a strong proponent of the UN SDGs. His personal life mission is to create positive impact in the lives of at least one million families unknown to him.
He is currently the Project Director for a CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) project called Building an Economically Sustainable, Integrated Cassava Seed System in Nigeria (BASICS) based in International Institute for Tropical Agriculture(IITA), a CGIAR Organisation, based in Ibadan, Nigeria. The project has interventions that contribute towards SDGs 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and 17.