The NACGRAB Acting Director, Dr Anthony Okere, stated this at the end of a 2023 Technical Working Group (TWG) meeting on Seed For Resilience (SFR) organised by NACGRAB in collaboration with Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) in Ibadan.
He said SFR came into existence in 2021 to improve the efficiency of the NACGRAB gene bank and enhance the use of conserved gene pools by farmers and other users of genetic resources in Nigeria.
Okere said the project had exposed the diversity of sorghum, cowpea and other crops to farmers and other users in Nigeria to mitigate the effects of climate change boost farmers’ productivity and ensure food and nutrition security in Nigeria.
