{"id":15656,"date":"2026-06-20T12:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/new-tissue-culture-laboratory-launched-in-dr-congo\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:31:31","slug":"new-tissue-culture-laboratory-launched-in-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/new-tissue-culture-laboratory-launched-in-dr-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"New tissue culture laboratory launched in DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<u>IITA<\/u>\u00a0Kalambo station, newly inaugurated as the President Olusegun Obasanjo Research Campus, commissioned a new tissue culture laboratory during an inauguration ceremony in the Democratic Republic of Congo on 8 October.\n\nThe world-class laboratory, which is the second of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, is intended to multiply clean and disease-free planting materials of banana, cassava, cocoa, potato, and yam\u2014important African food and economic crops.\n\nFormer Nigerian Head of State Yakubu Gowon and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo commissioned the first tissue culture laboratory in 2017, along with\u00a0<u>Banque africaine de d\u00e9veloppement<\/u>\u00a0President Akinwumi Adesina, during IITA\u2019s 50<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary celebration at the Institute headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria.\n<div id=\"attachment_5309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1233px\">\n\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28362\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tissue-culture-DRC-p01-300x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1233\" height=\"618\" \/>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newly launched tissue culture building<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nAt a pre-launch press conference held on 7 October, IITA Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Development,\u00a0<u>Kenton Dashiell<\/u>, said the laboratory will serve researchers in the region, help in the diagnosis of problems of agricultural crops, provide solutions to challenges in agriculture, as well as support government initiatives in agriculture.\n\nHe said it will \u201ccontribute to the drafting of youth and women into agribusiness.\u201d This will help address unemployment and DR Congo\u2019s dependence on food imports to feed its population.\n\n\u201cTo achieve this, IITA will make sure that this laboratory will multiply seedlings and cuttings of cassava and other important food crops. This is to help DR Congo and all of Africa in general to find sustainable solutions to problems related to food insecurity,\u201d he said.\n\nAlso speaking at the press conference, IITA Director Research for Development, Central Africa Hub and Natural Resources Management,\u00a0<u>Bernard Vanlauwe,<\/u>\u00a0said efforts need to be linked to better agronomic and postharvest practices to develop competitive value chains and combat these crop diseases in DR Congo. 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