Nigeria ratifies membership of Genetic Resource, Agriculture countries

The Federal Executive Council has ratified Nigeria’s membership in the global treaty on the Genetic Resource for Food and Agriculture.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sabo Nanono disclosed this while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of the first cabinet meeting for this year, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said this would enhance the capacity of agricultural scientists and agricultural production in the country.

“This memo which was approved today was a treaty on plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. The import of this treaty is for the advancement and enhancement of the agricultural resource base of the member countries.

“Nigeria has signed the treaty for a long time but it is only today that the FEC approved the ratification. We will now become a full fledged member of this treaty and it will enhance training and research of our agricultural scientists and so on and so forth.

“In short, the entire treaty is meant to boost agricultural production in the country as it affects other countries, 167 of them,” he explained.

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