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| The Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR), Samaru, ABU, Zaria |
The
Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR), Samaru, ABU, Zaria has changed the
popularly known Cropping Scheme to Annual Research Review and Planning Meeting,
and this year maiden edition under this new name will come up between March 28th-30
with the Zonal REFILs follows immediately.
This new
name according to Executive Director, IAR, Prof. Ibrahim Abubakar was necessary
so as to really reflect the purpose of the meeting in the agricultural cropping
planning for the new year towards food security saying all arrangement to
ensure this is already ongoing.
Prof.
Abubakar pointed that the meeting would look into the last year crops’
performance along the mandate ecological zones of the Institute considering all
aspects of research technologies towards the 2017 planting seasons as rain is
about to start.
According to him “Yes
the cropping scheme is coming up at the end of this month, although it is no
longer called cropping scheme, it is now Annual Research Review and Planning
Meeting. So we are going to have our
Annual Research Review and Planning Meeting at the end of this month and we are
expected to showcase achievements of last year and also plan for the fort
coming year, and as you are aware the raining season is by the corner.
In the
next two months we shall be deep into the raining season. So we have to plan on how to go about it, we
have to plan how to go about our researches and fortunately last year we were
able to achieve additional three varieties of maize, sam nut 49, sam nut 50,
sam nut 51. Sam nut 49, vitamin A maize, which is bio-fortified maize and it,
has a yield of about 8.8 tons per hectare, and we also have sam nut 50 and 51
which are drought tolerant varieties which can yield 9 tons per hectare, so we
are making a lot of progress”
The Head of extension unit of the Institute, Dr. A.I
Sharifai told us that the invitation for the programme and changed name
notification would soon be sent out to all scientists, researchers, ADPs,
policy makers and other research Institutes.
The communiqué of the last cropping scheme and REFILs
recommended-
i.
Harmonization/ Unification of various
e-extension models in the country
ii.
The need for enlightenment of seed companies and
other stakeholders on the need to maintain quality seeds for sustainable crop
production.
iii.
Review of IAR mandate crops to cover more than
North-West zone because IAR research outputs are used by farmers in other
regions of the country.
iv.
Increase funding for research and extension to IAR
in particular and other NARIs and ADPs in general so that research and
extension can be carried out effectively.
v.
Repackaged GES to be more effective and increase
the quantity of fertilizer bags from 2 to 4 or 5 per farmer.
vi.
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