Nigeria is losing over N100million [275,000 USD] annually to the production of tomatoes, pepper, cabbage, carrot, cucumbers and other vegetable seeds annually, the first Professor of Seeds and Technology in Nigeria and a Professor at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Sola Ajayi, has said.
He said Nigeria has poor and minimal proportions of seeds being produced locally, except for local vegetable crops.
The lecturer who spoke at a training for All Quality Control Officers of Seed Companies on New Methods to Control Seed Production, organized by Nigeria Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) in Ibadan, said Government has done well in the last ten to fifteen years by capacitating the activities of National Agricultural Council.
