Nigeria’s agriculture research sector loses approximately $100 million every year due to its inability to attract grants from local and foreign grant-issuing foundations and organizations.
Speaking at the opening of a week-long training workshop on grantsmanship for agricultural research officers by the Agriculture and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI) Ilorin, Kwara state on Tuesday, the executive director of the institute, Dr Olufemi Oladunni, said that the country needs agric research to improve its food production, reduce food shortages and poverty as well as create…
Source: The Nation Newspaper
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