Agriculture development agencies in Liberia and Nigeria to hold summit

Agricultural development agencies, researchers, and policymakers from Liberia are set to organise a business summit to draw a seed road map for the West African country. The consortium includes the Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, Phase 2 (BASICS-II) project of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), AfDB-funded Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) of IITA, the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) in Nigeria, and the Liberian government. The two-day Seed Business Summit themed, “Building a Harmonised Roadmap for Seed Sector Transformation”, being organised in collaboration with the Liberian Ministry of Agriculture, will be held between 25 and 26 March in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. The forum, which aims to catalyse an agricultural revolution in that country, is targeted at the establishment of an economically sustainable seed system for priority crops like rice, cassava, maize, soybean, and ...