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The National Agricultural Seeds Council has commenced the implementation of Plant Variety Protection Act 2021, with the aim of protecting intellectual properties, protection for plants and to ensure food productivity.
On May 21, 2021, the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), signed the PVP Bill into law after it was passed by the House of Representatives on December 17, 2020 and the Senate on March 3, 2021 following several months of deliberation.
Recently, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group said the implementation of the Plant Variety Protection Act would help Nigeria to generate over $2bn from seeds export.
Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, the Director-General, NASC, Philip Ojo, said the council was set to implement the Act.
The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) has commended the Nigerian Government for signing the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Bill into law on May 21, 2021.
The PVP Bill was passed by the House of Representatives on December 17, 2020 and the Nigerian senate on March 3, 2021, following several months of deliberation.
A statement by the Head, Corporate Communications, NESG, Yinka Iyinolakan, said through the National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable (NASSBER), the Partnership for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa (PIATA), together with AGRA, the Rockefeller Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID, the NESG has been collaborating with the Nigeria Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) to support the enaction of legislation that would provide a plant variety protection system that will incentivise national and multinational agribusiness investments and aid the development of Nigeria’s agriculture value chain.