Agriculture · Nigeria
License a seed company (NASC)
Produce, process or market agricultural seed lawfully: register with the National Agricultural Seeds Council under the NASC Act 2019 → facility inspection → licence (valid 1 year, renewable). Seed lots are separately certified/labelled by NASC.
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Who you will deal with
The steps
- Incorporate with a seed object clause
- Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)
- Incorporate a company whose MEMART object clause states expressly that it engages in seed/seedling production, processing, packaging and marketing.
- CIC; MEMART with seed object clause
- Weeks
- Apply to NASC
- National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC)
- Submit an application letter with the MEMART and a duly completed registration form. A licence is mandatory before commencing the business of production, marketing or sale of agricultural seed (NASC Act 2019).
- Application letter; MEMART; registration form; fee
- Submission
- Site and facility inspection
- NASC
- NASC inspects and appraises the business site and facilities (seed processing, storage, laboratory/quality arrangements, agronomist capacity).
- Site and facility access
- Part of the ~1-month cycle
- Licence issuance and seed certification
- NASC
- On satisfactory inspection NASC issues the licence - valid for one year and renewable on payment of the prescribed renewal fee. Estimated timeline ~1 month. Seed lots produced are separately field-inspected, tested, certified and tagged by NASC before sale.
- Seed company licence (1 yr); per-lot seed certification
- ~1 month
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