Nigeria Leans Towards Crop Innovation to Bridge $10 Billion Production Loss

In a bid to stem the huge loss from agricultural output from which Nigeria lost $10 Billion in the past 20 years, plans are currently afoot to raise the country's food and export output through an innovation programme of injecting new inputs to boost production tagged the N2Africa project.

A Senior Development Officer of the project at the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, IITA, Edward Baars, stated this to the News Agency of Nigeria in an interview in Abuja, Wednesday, where a stakeholders' meeting to review the level of performance of the Public-Private Partnerships in terms of technology dissemination to farmers is holding.

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