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srsrpkmcntary to OPlktd Gazette Extra0dnm-y No. 71 Vol79,31#t Dcrcrakr, 1992-M A

NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SEEDS DECREE 1992

Decree No. 72
[23rd November 19921 Cornmencenm&

THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as
follows:-

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PART 1 ESTABLISHMENT, ETC. OF THE NATIONAL
AGRICULTURAL SEEDS COUNCIL.

1.41) There is -hereby established a council to be known'as the
National Agricultural Seed Council (in this Decree referred to as "the Council")
which shall be charged with responsibility for the ove:all policy guidelines and
monitoring of the development of the national seed system.

Establishment of&
National A g r k u h d
Seed Council.

(2) The Council shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and
a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name.

2.41)n

e Council shall consist of

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the Minister of Agriculture. Water Resources and Rural
IPevelopment, as Chairman;

(a)

(b) the Directors-General of-

(i) the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and
Rural Development, as Vice Chairman;

(ii) the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture;
(C)

the Director of

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(i).the Fkderal Department of Agriculture.
(ii) the Department of Agricultural Science of the Federal
Infrastucture;
National Agency for Science and ~ngineerin~

Membership of tbo
Council.

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