{"id":432704,"date":"2011-05-30T12:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/30\/agricultural-productivity-govt-fao-in-quest-of-quality-seedlings\/"},"modified":"2011-05-30T12:30:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T12:30:54","slug":"agricultural-productivity-govt-fao-in-quest-of-quality-seedlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/30\/agricultural-productivity-govt-fao-in-quest-of-quality-seedlings\/","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural Productivity &#8211; Gov&#8217;t, FAO in Quest of Quality Seedlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"34.2227285674\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cameroon-tribune.cm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/camtribune180.jpg\" alt=\"Cameroon Tribune (Yaound\u00e9)\" title=\"Visit Cameroon Tribune (Yaound\u00e9)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Godlove Bainkong<\/p>\n<p>29 May 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><em>The government of Cameroon in partnership with the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) are finalising studies to put in place a viable seed system that can meet the aspirations of public authorities to boost agricultural production and ensure food sufficiency in the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is through a Support Project for Capacity Building on the Control and Certification of Seedlings (TCP\/CMR\/3203 (D). Members of the project held their final workshop at the Yaounde Djeuga hotel last Friday May 27 to come up with the final roadmap for the project.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech, FAO&#8217;s country Resident Representative, Ousmane Guindo, said the project is at the request of government to improve food sufficiency by boosting agricultural production.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that during the past two years, FAO supported the government in establishing the system in terms of institutional capacity building. &#8220;For example, we procured equipment worth over FCFA 63 million for the national and regional laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>We also built the capacities of technicians nationwide so that Cameroon can have a system that will be credible in terms of quality of seeds of the various crops produced in the country&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of the Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Secretary General of the ministry, Jean-Claude Eko&#8217;o Akouafane, described the programme as a stitch in time.<\/p>\n<p>Coming at a time public authorities have negotiated an uncompromising bend to boost agricultural production and desist from incessant importation of food crops, the S.G said, &#8220;good quality seedlings constitute viable agricultural input and the programme cannot but be welcomed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201105301371.html\" title=\"Agricultural Productivity - Gov't, FAO in Quest of Quality Seedlings\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agricultural Productivity &#8211; Gov&#8217;t, FAO in Quest of Quality Seedlings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Godlove Bainkong 29 May 2011 The government of Cameroon in partnership with the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) are finalising studies to put in place a viable seed system that can meet the aspirations of public authorities to boost agricultural production and ensure food sufficiency in the country. This is through a Support Project for Capacity Building on the Control and Certification of Seedlings (TCP\/CMR\/3203 (D). Members of the project held their final workshop at the Yaounde Djeuga hotel last Friday May 27 to come up with the final roadmap for the project. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":432705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-432704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Agricultural Productivity - Gov&#039;t, FAO in Quest of Quality Seedlings - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/30\/agricultural-productivity-govt-fao-in-quest-of-quality-seedlings\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Agricultural Productivity - Gov&#039;t, FAO in Quest of Quality Seedlings - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Godlove Bainkong 29 May 2011 The government of Cameroon in partnership with the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) are finalising studies to put in place a viable seed system that can meet the aspirations of public authorities to boost agricultural production and ensure food sufficiency in the country. 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