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Community-Based Seed Production System (CBSP) in Nigeria: An Opening for Complementing National Supply of Quality Seeds, Policy Brief 34

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Title Community-Based Seed Production System (CBSP) in Nigeria: An Opening for Complementing National Supply of Quality Seeds, Policy Brief 34
 
Creator Vabi, M B
Ojo, P
Zidafamor, E
Ajeigbe, H A
Ubanduma, H
 
Subject Nigeria
Groundnut
African Agriculture
Seed Systems
 
Description Two seeds systems co-exist in Nigeria, the formal and
informal systems. An integrated system (semi-formal)
brings together core elements of both the formal and
informal systems. In the semi-formal seed system,
farmer groups produce, distribute and market
Certified Seeds endorsed by the National Agricultural
Seeds Council (NASC). The primary beneficiaries of
the semi-formal system are members of concerned
farmer groups and other farmers within and out of
their communities. In 2016, NASC identified over
712 farmer groups engaged in the semi-formal seed
system in Nigeria with 92% (655) engaged in the
production, distribution and marketing of Certified
Seeds and vegetatively propagated materials.
Increasingly, this seed system is becoming the
focus of technical and financial partners (donor) for
enhancing the availability of quality seeds to farmers
across West and Central Africa (WCA), including
Nigeria. As an approach, the semi-formal seed system
makes available farmer and market preferred seed
varieties. Groundnut and vegetatively propagated
planting materials notably yams, cassava, coco-yams,
potatoes (Sweet and Irish) may well benefit from
this system and contribute to making quality seed
available to the anxious farming communities in
Nigeria.
 
Publisher ICRISAT
 
Date 2018-04
 
Type Other
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10902/1/Policy%20Brief%2034%20Community-Based%20Seed%20Production.pdf
Vabi, M B and Ojo, P and Zidafamor, E and Ajeigbe, H A and Ubanduma, H (2018) Community-Based Seed Production System (CBSP) in Nigeria: An Opening for Complementing National Supply of Quality Seeds, Policy Brief 34. ICRISAT.