Issue
warning to adulterated seed sellers
As
preparations begin for the 2019 Seedconnect Conference
and Expo in Abuja scheduled to hold on the 15th-16th
of April 2019, the National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC), with its partners
and board of Trustee have taken to a march from the Federal Secretariat to the
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) to continue the
cry for quality seeds in the Nigerian Agricultural sector for better yield in
food production across the country.
Speaking at
the march was the Director General of the National Agricultural Seed Council
(NASC), Dr. Philip Ojo, who disclosed that the event was to create further awareness on the need
for farmers to patronize quality seed to bumper food production, instead of
patronizing the fake seed merchants who end up selling fake seeds that
endangers their business.
Ojo added
that the 2019 SeedConnect will bring together stakeholders from across and
outside the country, to deliberate on a way forward on the use of quality seeds
for increased productivity and the introduction of farmers to new technologies.
Ojo seized
the opportunity to warn fake seed peddlers to desist from the further sale of
adulterated seed as the effects are huge.
Also speaking
on the occasion was the representative of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural
Development(FMARD), Chief Audu Ogbeh, in the person of the Director Cooperative,
Mr. Quadri Olalekan, said that farmers needed to key-in into the use of quality seed to enable their
crops perform better and enable them avoid recording losses during harvest,
promising that the ministry would do
everything possible to make sure that the perpetrators of fake seed sale would
face the law if caught, as stated in the seed law yet to be passed.
The Country
Director of Open Forum of Agricultural biotechnology (OFAB), Dr. Rose Gidado,
said that it was necessary for farmers to adopt the use of improved technology
to ensure that they get increased yield across the country.
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