By Sylvester Thompson
The National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) has said that the revival of hybrid cotton production can help resuscitate Nigeria’s textile industry and create at least 10 million jobs in the country.
Mr Idris Aliyu, the Director of Seed, Industry Development, Technical Support, and Commercial Services, NASC made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.
NAN reports that the most damaging cotton pests are those that attack squares and bolls such as the cotton bollworm, tobacco budworm, pink bollworm, boll weevil, and lygus bugs.
Yield losses due to bollworm/budworm complex, the most devastating of all the above pests, are typically higher in the bloom stage.
According to Aliyu, the two newly approved and introduced genetically modified cotton varieties – BG2 – 571 and BG2 – 567 – by Mayhco Seed Company are hybrid, capable of…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
