Farmers to receive Demand-Driven Crop Varieties

IITA Senior Scientist, and the newly appointed Executive Director of the National Root Crop Research Institute (NRCRI), Prof. Chiedozie Egesi, says plans are underway to ensure farmers get more nutritious and resilient crops of the RTB varieties through a proposal for the new OneCGIAR-led crop breeding project. Egesi, who also…

I-House staff receive Training to Upscale their Skills

The International House of International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) also known as I-House hosted some management staff, staff, and guests to a ‘Menu tasting’ event to sample their objective opinions following weeks of training of the entire staff of the unit to improve their culinary skills, food presentation, and…

Green Team Celebrates Victory as it Emerged Winner of the IITA 2022 Sports Festival

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Sportsfest Green Team has organized a mini get-together event to celebrate its achievements of emerging overall winner in the just concluded annual Sports festival activities of the institute. Green Team which bagged 14 trophies and 30 medals, was declared the overall winner of…

IITA BIP, Project Scinovate collaborate to scale up local scientific inventions and innovations for commercialization

IITA Business Incubation Platform (BIP) in partnership Futuristic Specifications (FUTSPEC) is harvesting youthful talents to solve Nigeria’s economic problem with the launch of a new project, Scinovate, developed by FUTSPEC to engage, nurture, and showcase innovative ideas in science and technology and turn research developmental process into commercially viable consumables.…