2024 Seed Connect Africa: Adamawa’s ADAS-P to Partner with 6 Organizations to Promote Value Chain
By Abdulaziz Abubakar Damare
The Adamawa State Agribusiness Support Programme (ADAS-P) has expressed its readiness to collaborate with six organizations that have shown interest in partnering with the program. This development follows a successful exhibition of verified seeds by Adamawa Community-Based Seed Entrepreneurs trained by IITA and registered, while ADAS-P provided technological innovations, foundation seeds, linkages, fertilizers, and sponsorship to Seed Connect.
The six organizations that have expressed their readiness to partner with ADAS-P are:
- Foundation for Sustainable Small Holder Solutions (Seed Foundation Initiative) in collaboration with the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi.
- Interra Network, a digitalized private extension agency.
- Eco-Basic Seeds, a certified foundation seed company.
- East West Seed.
- Prossiva Network.
- Olam Group.
This year’s Seed Connect Africa Conference focuses on leveraging seed technologies to scale agricultural productivity for sustained food and nutrition security, despite growing challenges such as insecurity, pandemics, and climate change.
The conference provides an opportunity for ADAS-P to showcase its innovations and support, as well as discuss and exchange ideas with global stakeholders on propelling Nigeria’s seed sector towards food security and net exportation of agricultural produce.