Are you a seed company ready to showcase your best-performing and climate-smart maize variety and prove it is the best in Nigeria? In order to identify the best-performing maize variety in Nigeria, the Collaborative Seed Program (CSP) is holding a competitive maize demo on 1 hectare of field per variety. Location: Kaduna Benefits: Gain direct access to a ready maize

We would like to engage a contractor on the Collaborative Seed Programme (CSP) for documentary video production. Click here to download the RFP document for more details Let’s work together to showcase the importance of CSP and its mission to improve farmers’ access to quality seed in Nigeria Deadline for Submission: 17th May 2023

The National Seed Road Map outlines a vision to make the Nigerian seed sector competitive, resilient, profitable, innovative, adaptive, inclusive, resistant, and transparent. The roadmap identifies 22 Strategic Innovation Pathways (SIPs) to achieve this vision. The Collaborative Seed Programme conducted a study that maps direct and indirect seed sector investments by key donors and development partners and tracks these interventions

The 4th Quarter National Seed Platform Meeting held on December 6, 2022, on prioritizing investments in the Nigerian seed sector from the development partners’ perspective. The Collaborative Seed Programme (CSP) coordinated the webinar under the leadership of the National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) Ekum Ojogu, the Chief Agricultural Officer of NASC, opened the meeting by outlining the objectives of the

The Collaborative Seed Programme (CSP) on September 29, 2022, facilitated a webinar for plant variety release stakeholders to discuss performance trials in the Nigeria and Netherlands seed sectors. The session featured keynote presentations by Professor O.O. Olufajo of the Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria – the Chairman of the Nigerian Variety Release Technical Sub-Committee –

The NextGen Cassava Breeding project, the IITA Cassava Breeding Unit, and Sahel Consulting organized a triadic comparison of technologies (Tricot) workshop with the Nigerian variety release committee recently. Sahel Consulting works with the Nigerian Variety Release Committee, through the Collaborative Seed Programme (CSP), to innovate the procedures and approaches used to enable variety release. The workshop proposed employing Tricot as an alternative and better way

The Collaborative Seed Programme (CSP) held its quarterly seed platform meeting on the 26th of April, 2022. The webinar is part of the programme’s strategic pathway in establishing and institutionalizing a functional national seed sector platform to improve sector coordination and governance. The quarterly seed platform meeting reviews and discusses emerging topics relevant to improving the seed sector and recommend

The Collaborative Seed Programme (CSP) team, in partnership with the Seed Entrepreneurs Association of Nigeria (SEEDAN), conducted due diligence visits to 15 seed companies in Kaduna and Kano states. This is part of an evaluation process designed to select ten (10) innovative Nigerian seed companies that will receive technical and financial support for crop variety demonstration and promotion.

On the 4th of December 2021, the Extension on Seed and Cultivation Practices topic held its first on-station demonstration at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. The training involved a varietal demonstration of improved nursery production on vegetable seedlings compared with conventional practices using local varieties of tomatoes and cabbage. The training had in attendance a total of 37 people comprising