Council To Overhaul Research Plans

Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN) has acceptable successful question a betterment docket designed to fortify cultivation probe governance and reposition the assemblage to amended service nationalist nutrient information goals.

The executive-secretary of ARCN, Dr Abubakar Adamu Dabban, said the assembly had begun moving with stakeholders to thrust 4 precedence reforms.

At the maiden National Stakeholders’ Forum connected Agricultural Research Capabilities successful Abuja yesterday, the ES outlined the reforms to see the improvement of a second-generation strategical and operational plan, a reappraisal of conditions and schemes of work for cultivation institutions, the implementation of the ARCN (Amended) Act 2021, and an update of absorption guidelines past revised successful 2009.

Stressing that the country’s cultivation probe strategy had made advancement but inactive required deeper reforms to present greater impact, helium noted that the forum provides a level not lone to bespeak connected past achievements but besides to signifier the aboriginal of cultivation probe successful Nigeria.

The event, jointly convened by ARCN and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), brought unneurotic probe leaders, argumentation makers, and improvement partners, with enactment from the Committee of Directors of Research Institutes (CODRI) and the National Committee of Heads of Colleges of Agriculture and Related Disciplines (NACHCARD).

Dr Dabban acknowledged the contributions of Nigeria’s probe assemblage and planetary partners, including CGIAR, ECOWAS, and AATF, portion noting that agriculture remained nether unit from clime change, colonisation maturation and marketplace challenges.

He argued that stronger collaboration, amended governance, and concern successful quality capableness were captious to transforming nutrient systems.

He besides projected that the stakeholders’ forum beryllium convened annually to guarantee continuity, accountability and semipermanent planning.

He said, “We person already commenced engagements with stakeholders to beforehand the pursuing priorities: improvement of the second-generation strategical and operational plans for the ARCN; revisiting the conditions and schemes of work for ARCN, NARIs, and FCAs; revisiting the study of the Ministerial Committee connected the Implementation of the ARCN (Amended) Act 2021 to guarantee its afloat implementation; and the contiguous reappraisal and update of the Guidelines for Management of NARIs and FCAs (2009).

Nigeria’s agriculture stands astatine a crossroads; challenged by clime alteration and colonisation growth, yet energised by the committedness of science, innovation and exertion to thrust nutrient information and alteration livelihoods.

“To prehend this moment, we indispensable fortify probe governance, put successful quality and organization capableness and foster collaboration that extends nationally, regionally and globally.”