Tuesday 12 August 2014

SEED CERTIFICATION AND QUALITY CONTROL,CROP VARIETY REGISTRATION AND RELEASE DEPARTMENT OF NIGERIA

    •     Collaboration with National and International Agricultural Research Institutes/Centre on Variety Testing

          in the context of Nationally Coordinated Research Projects  facilities.


    •    Registration and release of crop varieties and hybrids
    •    Listing of notified kinds, varieties and hybrids and publication in official gazette
    •    Maintenance of National Register of all released crop varieties
    •    Seed Crop Inspection of Foundation and Certified Seed classes
    •    Sampling and testing for certification and seed law enforcement and referee testing at the Central Seed

         Testing Laboratory.
    •    Establishment of grow-out test plots
    •    Grant certificates as prescribed in the Seed Act, Seed Rules and Regulations
    •    Setting seed quality standards and enforcement of National Minimum Standards
    •    Formulation and Development of policies, regulations, rules, concepts and initiatives for seed certification,

         Quality Assurances and control seed sampling and
         Analysis and Law Enforcement.

DIVISIONS

1    QUALITY CONTROL DIVISION
   
    •    Sampling and testing for certification and seed law enforcement and referee testing at the Central Seed

         Testing Laboratory
    •    Establishment of grow-out test plots for genetic purity evaluation
    •    Grant certificates as prescribed in the Seed Act, Seed Rules and Regulations
    •    Setting seed quality standards and enforcement of National Minimum Seed Standards
    •    Joint Monitoring Breeder Seed Quality Control Inspection

2     CROP VARIETY REGISTRATION, RELEASE & SEED CERTIFICATION DIVISION
   
    •    Seed Crop Inspection of Foundation and Certified Seed classes
    •    Liaison with NARIs and International Agricultural Research Centre on Variety Testing in the context of

         Nationally Coordinated Research Projects facilities.
    •    Registration and release of crop varieties and hybrids
    •    Publication on official Gazette list of notified kinds or varieties and hybrids
    •    Maintenance of National Register of all released crop varieties

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