The West Africa Agricultural
Productivity Programme (WAAPP) in Nigeria has declared that it will produce 250 million fast
growing fingerlings as well as high quality brood stock in one year for
farmers.
The WAAPP’s National Project Coordinator,
Prof. Damian Chikwendu, gave this assurance while addressing newsmen on the
sidelines of a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja and stressed that the programme
is focused to promote some newly
introduced agricultural technology among farmers.
“We have about 120 communities we are
working with while the research institutes and colleges are working with some
secondary schools as well. We are trying to promote interest in agriculture
among students in secondary schools. We are also working with research
institutes to multiply breeder seeds, improve foundation seeds as well as
working with the private sector to multiply certified seeds. We are also
working with the research institutes and universities to multiply fast growing
fingerlings and high quality brood stock; our target for fingerlings for one
year is to provide 250 million fingerlings. The seeds and fingerlings that are
being produced are for farmers and they are getting them already. The programme
is also working toward popularising all local genetic materials, “Prof. Chikwendu
said.
He mentioned the `Shika brown’ as an
example of a layer breed of chicken developed
by the National Animal Production Research Institute, and said that the “brown parent stocks” of the new
breed would be reproduced with the parent stock and day old chicks distributed
to farmers for adoption.
The World Bank Regional Task Team Leader
in West Africa Dr Abdoulaye Toure, said the idea of the programme was to share
innovations among countries to help develop the sector as well as food security
and reduce poverty among West African countries, and urged countries to ensure
speedy adoption of technologies and new approaches to development.
NaijaAgroNet recalls that WAAPP is an Economic Community of West
African States (ECOWAS) initiative
coordinated at the sub-regional level by the West and Central African Council
for Agricultural Research and Development, but in Nigeria, it was approved by the World Bank
and is being coordinated by the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN), an agency of the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development to cooperate with the West African sub-region
in technology generation and dissemination.
The ARCN Executive Secretary, Prof.
Baba-Yusuf Abubakar, also said that WAAPP programmes were in line with the federal
government Agricultural Transformation
Agenda (ATA), as it has supported some of the research institutes to produce
the foundation seeds that eventually go to the National Seeds Council and then finally
to the farmers.
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