According to seed sector specialists, businesses selling improved varieties and high-quality cassava stems for cultivation could help African farmers significantly raise their productivity. Raised productivity will be enjoyed by all stakeholders across the value chain in a sustainable way as this means more Naira from the land, inputs, and effort.
This was part of the resolutions from a national stakeholder conference on cassava seed system organised by the project, Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System (BASICS) that was held at the Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan. Read more