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The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) was established by Decree 88 of 1993 to among other things, promote the development of the Sugar sub-sector through the provision of guidance and the development of sugar estates and the organisation of sugarcane out-growers schemes to enhance local production of sugar with a view to ensuring that Nigeria achieves at least 70% self-sufficiency in sugar requirements as soon as possible.
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The University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB) was established in January, 1988. It is one of the three Universities of Agriculture in the Country, the other being in Makurdi (Benue State) and Umudike(Abia State).
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The birth of the Nigerian Agricultural, Cooperative and Rural Development Bank (NACRDB) Limited as the single largest development finance institution in
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The Federal College of Fisheries and Marine Technology assumed its present status as a full-fledged technological institution in 1992. Before then the College was known as the Federal School of Fisheries which was established in 1969 as a vocational training institute to address the manpower requirement of Nigeria’s fledging in-shore fleet.
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By virtue of the Agricultural Research Institute Decree 35 of 1975, the name Federal Department of Veterinary Research was changed to National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI) and has its Mandate as follows: To conduct Research into all aspects of animal diseases, their Treatment and Control.
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Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, originally the Federal University of Agriculture, is a federal university in Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria established as a specialized University by a Federal Government of Nigeria Decree No 48 of November 1992.
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