Hemant Nitturkar Project Director BASICS – Project overview and status 23 July 2017 IITA, IBADAN Dr Barbara Wells, DG, CIP Welcome to Nigeria
Hemant NitturkarProject Director
BASICS – Project overview and status
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Dr Barbara Wells, DG, CIPWelcome to Nigeria
WELCOME TO NIGERIA
• Population in 2015 – 182m• Population in 2050 – 392 m• % of people under 25 – 63• Median age – 17.9 years• Youth unemployment – 22%• % people in Agriculture – 50• Highly entrepreneurial
HUGE OPPORTUNITY FOR CIP IN YOUTH-LED SDG RELATED
INTERVENTIONS
Target 20 tons per hectare
30%
30%
30%
10%
IMPROVED
VARIETIES
& SEEDS
WEED
MANAGEMENT
IMPROVED
AGRONOMY
WEATHER AND
MISC
7 m ha = 55 m tons (current)7 m ha = 140 m tons (possible)We are losing 85 m tons/year
25 m tons (30% of the additional 85 MT) can come from seed intervention alone
@20,000 Naira per ton, this is a 500 Billion Naira opportunity per annum
Situation and policy push make seed system intervention timely!
Cassava seed tracker (CST) e-Certification innovation at NASC
Users
Producers Researchers Traders
Regulators Extension specialists Logistics/input dealers
Potential official tool for seed registration, inspection and certification
Flexible and customizable to end user needs, other crops, and country seed regulations
Village Seed Entrepreneurs(VSE)
• Over 100 VSEs set up in Benue and around Umudike
• First harvest out in 2017 season
• CRS and NRCRI implementation
• Out-scaling – MADE, GIZ
QUALITY SEED REGIME
• Diagnostic capability development at NASC under Fera, UK leadership
• International best practices from East Africa and UK
• NASC setting up a Center of Excellence for seed certification
• Certification protocols at Breeder, Foundation and Commercial seed levels
• Piloting private sector led third-party certification
Challenges being addressed
- Demonstrated value proposition of certified seed compared to the farmer saved seeds
- Integration between partners for seed class dependencies
- Institutionalising breeder seed multiplication at IITA (GoSeed) and NRCRI (NRCRI Consult)
- Developing attractive business cases for village seed enterprises, private sector foundation seed producers and SAH labs
The purpose the BASICS project is to develop a
sustainable cassava seed value chain in Nigeria,
characterized by the commercial production and
dissemination of cassava planting material. The project
envisages benefits to farmers and the industry through
higher returns from the use of clean planting material of
superior stem quality that are made accessible to
farmers at the right time and at an appropriate price.
THANK YOU