Legacy Crop Improvement Centre to introduce new maize variety on the market
Legacy Crop Improvement Centre is a smart seed business centre that offers services like seed sorting, threshing, drying, cleaning, grading, chemical treatment, bagging, warehousing, cold storage, and brokerage, among others
The Legacy Crop Improvement Centre (LCIC) hosted Hajia Abiba Yusufu, the Eastern Regional Agriculture Directorate to introduce the company’s new hybrid yellow maize.
Legacy Crop Improvement Centre (LCIC), a non-governmental seed production entity, is located at Otareso-Adawso in the Akuapem North Municipality of the Eastern Region.
All 33 district and municipal agriculture directors and extension officers in the region also brainstormed on ways to increase yields in maize and cowpea production.
Legacy Crop Improvement Centre is a smart seed business centre that offers services like seed sorting, threshing, drying, cleaning, grading, chemical treatment, bagging, warehousing, cold storage, and brokerage, among others.
Since it’s inception in 2015, the company has emerged as a vibrant indigenous private seed company in terms of infrastructure, human resources, and service delivery.
Apart from Ghana, it also operates in seed markets in Togo, Burkina Faso and Mali.
Amos Rutherford Azinu, the founder, stated that the Legacy Crop Improvement Centre’s mission is to provide farmers with high-quality maize seeds, cowpea, and soyabean to help them increase their farm yields.
He stated that the new hybrid maize has a 95-day maturity period, a high grain yield, sustainability, and husk coverage.
The Eastern Regional Director of Agriculture, Hajia Abiba Yusufu, commended the center for playing a pivotal role in the production of viable seeds for farmers.
Reporting by John Attafuah in the Eastern Region
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