Nigeria’s crop variety registration and release system features a range of actors across the public and private sectors who coordinate, nominate, and evaluate crop varieties for release. The process ensures that only high-performing and well-adapted varieties enter the seed system and become available for multiplication and distribution to farmers and food producers. It involves three mandatory trials DUS on-station trials, VCU multi-location trials, and on-farm trials, all of which are conducted by the developing breeders and organizations, in collaboration with the mandated National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)
