{"id":16048,"date":"2026-06-20T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/yiifswa-ii-steals-the-show-at-nasc-seed-fair-abuja\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:03:52","slug":"yiifswa-ii-steals-the-show-at-nasc-seed-fair-abuja","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/yiifswa-ii-steals-the-show-at-nasc-seed-fair-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"YIIFSWA-II steals the show at NASC Seed Fair Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"\nThe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/seedcouncil.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Agricultural Seed Council<\/a>\u00a0with the mandate of ensuring the availability and accessibility of quality seed for farmers in Nigeria, hosted its annual seed fair in Abuja on 4 October.\n<div id=\"attachment_4030\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Hon.-Minister-of-Agriculture-and-Rural-Development-Chief-Audu-Ogbeh-eating-bread-made-from-yam-composite-flour.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4030\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Hon.-Minister-of-Agriculture-and-Rural-Development-Chief-Audu-Ogbeh-eating-bread-made-from-yam-composite-flour.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Hon. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh eating bread made from yam composite flour\" width=\"1024\" height=\"646\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4030\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hon. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh eating bread made from yam composite flour.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nThe theme of this year\u2019s seed fair was \u201cEnhancing improved seed adoption towards achieving food security.\u201d The fair was attended by the Honorable Federal Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Chief Audu Ogbeh, members of his ministry, research centers, seed enterprises, agro dealers, secondary school children, farmers, and other stakeholders.\n\nIn line with this year\u2019s theme,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yiifswa.iita.org\/index.php\/yiifswa-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YIIFSWA-II<\/a>\u00a0exhibited seed yams, High Ratio Propagation Technologies (HRPTs) that ensure the quality of the seed yams produced in the project as well as processed yam foods promoting value addition.\n\nAt the opening of the event\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iita.org\/iita-staff\/maroya-norbert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Norbert Maroya<\/a>, the Project Leader of YIIFSWA-II, informed the audience of the mandate of the project and its achievements so far after which he invited the Honorable Minister and other participants to the YIIFSWA-II booth to see the potential of the Aeroponics System (AS) one-node vine seedlings from the latest harvest. He also extended an invitation to the Minister to attend the upcoming YIIFSWA-II Demonstration Open Day on seed yam production using HRPTs to take place on 18 October at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iita.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IITA<\/a>-Ibadan.\n\nAt the YIIFSWA-II booth, the Minister was excited to see the seed yams cultivated from AS single node vine seedlings. He expressed amazement that there were several yam tubers weighing more than 1 kg.\n\nYIIFSWA-II Communication Specialist, Oiwoja Odihi explained that \u201cwith the current progression of YIIFSWA-II activities in the nation, farmers will soon have access to quality seed yam of improved varieties for cultivation. Thus, ensuring food security in the nation.\u201d\n\n[su_quote]\u201cThis is impressive and also to have a water yam variety that can be pounded, fried, boiled, and processed into the various food that we have here is good news. As you know, where I come from we like pounded yam,\u201d said the Minister.[\/su_quote]\n\nThe emphasis of the seed fair was to introduce new and improved seed of key crops and to encourage farmers to adopt these new technologies.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Agricultural Seed Council with the mandate of ensuring the availability and accessibility of quality seed for farmers in Nigeria, hosted its annual seed fair in Abuja on 4 October.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":16049,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[1619],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[196],"class_list":["post-16048","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-iita-news-no-2456yiifswa-ii","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-196"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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