April 23, 2025

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Nigeria - Seed Potato Inspection and Certification Guidelines (National Agricultural Seed Council)

Guidelines and Manual for Potato Seed Certification for NASC authorized agents in Nigeria

Guidelines and Manual for Rice Seed Certification for NASC authorized agents in Nigeria

Guidelines and Manual for Maize Seed Certification for NASC authorized agents in Nigeria

April 21, 2025

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National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) is catalyst for Nigeria’s food security revolution (BusinessDay)

January 24, 2025

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State of the Nigerian seed sector in 2023 - National Agricultural Seeds Council presents the Nigerian Seed Roadmap Dashboard

December 9, 2024

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National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF) partners with National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) on six priority crops to enhance food security in Nigeria (Business Day)

March 28, 2024

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) unveils new policy for early generation seeds (Nigerian Tribune)

November 27, 2023

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Nigeria - Training of licensed seed inspectors and seed companies in digitalization of BT-cowpea production

Nigeria - Training of seed companies production managers on the use of the Seed Tracker platform

August 14, 2023

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Nigeria - Food production receives boost with commissioning of seed testing lab equipment by the National Agricultural Seed Council (Vanguard News)

Nigeria - National Agricultural Seed Council confident that the IMAGE Project (Institutionalising Monitoring of Variety Adoption, using Genotyping) will boost seed quality (TYC News)

June 26, 2023

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National Seed Policy for Nigeria, 2022

June 16, 2023

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IITA–CGIAR and Nigeria’s National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) sign a Memorandum of Understanding to support sustainable seed production and supply in Northeast Nigeria

May 22, 2023

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seeds Council empowers operators for better seed quality and output (TVC News)

December 12, 2022

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Nigeria - Seed legislation will enhance sector’s development, says the Director General, National Agricultural Seed Council (Blueprint)

November 18, 2022

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seeds Council says that some seed dealers are still selling unauthorised seeds to farmers despite the 2019 Seeds Act (Punching)

August 22, 2022

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New policy to invigorate Nigeria’s seed system (Leadership)

August 11, 2022

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Why Nigeria’s crop yields have remained lowest in Africa (Independent)

February 23, 2022

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seed Council destroys imported vegetable seeds worth about N40 million for not complying with packaging rules and presentations of false information on the product (Nigerian Tribune)

January 24, 2022

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seeds Council warns farmers against buying fake seeds (Daily Trust)

November 29, 2021

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Nigeria currently supplies over 50 per cent of the quality seeds that are used in West Africa, says the Federal Government (Punch)

October 7, 2021

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Danforth Center and the National Agricultural Seed Council of Nigeria partner to ensure the delivery of high-quality seed to farmers

September 13, 2021

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Nigeria, National Agricultural Seeds Council - Call for expression of interest: Decentralized seed quality assurance

July 12, 2021

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Japan International Cooperation Agency donates seed inspection kits to Nigeria's National Agricultural Seeds Council

April 28, 2021

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Nigeria - Launch of the "Collaborative Seed Programme"

April 5, 2021

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seed Council builds stakeholders’ capacity (Blueprinit)

March 31, 2021

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seeds Council charges stakeholders to abide by Seed Act 2019 (Vanguard)

February 25, 2021

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Nigeria, National Agricultural Seed Council - Call for expression of interest: Consultancy for the development of guidelines and regulations for plant variety protection in Nigeria

Nigeria, National Agricultural Seed Council - Call for expression of interest: Consultancy for the development of guidelines and regulations for private seed inspectors