Biotech Updates

KKM Project Impacts on Nigerian Farmers

May 15, 2009

Resource-poor farmers in northern Nigeria, led by Hajiya Murja Abass of Musawa, Katsina State, are asking for more improved seed varieties from scientists from the Sudan Savannah task force project. "Farmers love the seeds you gave us because of the good results they got last year. The improved seeds yielded three times more when compared with local varieties using the same hectare of land and the same quantity of seeds," she said.

Abass made this appeal during a stakeholders' mobilization exercise in Katsina state. Through the Kano-Katsina-Maradi Pilot Initiative of the Sudan Savannah Task Force, farmers benefit from the integrated agricultural research for development project that addresses agricultural constraints of farmers in the region such as lack of improved seed varieties, declining soil fertility and poor marketing.

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