The Federal Government, through the National Agricultural Seeds Council, has begun efforts to make Nigeria a full member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in order to increase the country’s seed exports.Information Guide Nigeria
This was revealed at the International OECD Seed Certification Workshop on Wednesday in Abuja, when the global collaboration instructed Nigerian authorities as part of the prerequisites to become a certified OECD member nation.
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In his remarks to the workshop, NASC Director-General Dr Philip Ojo stated that Nigeria’s seeds would be easily traded globally if the country achieved OECD membership, emphasising that this would put an end to all sorts of seed dumping in Nigeria.
He said, “The OECD scheme is an international organisation in the seed trade that we are joining. We have observer status now and we are trying to become a full-scale member so that our products will be able to key into that international seed trade.JAMB Result
“With what is going to happen now, our seeds are going to be sold anywhere, and also, our seed companies will be able to sell their seeds and increase income and economic prosperity for our country.”
Ojo stated the professionals from OECD would assess Nigeria’s facilities after the workshop and expressed optimism that the country would scale through.
“After the training, the international experts will look at our facilities, and with that, we will pass all that it takes. We are all out to ensure we key into all those schemes around the world so that we can be at par with our colleagues all over the world,” the NASC boss stated.
He added, “This is the first step in the training. We are the regulators. After this, there will be a series of training, and we are going to cascade this training to other levels.”
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