National Root Crops Research Institute

NRCRI is Nigeria’s federal institute dedicated to root and tuber crops, headquartered in Umudike, Abia State, and operating across multiple agro-ecologies via regional outstations. For industry, these sites enable ecological testing and on-farm validation, while extension and demonstration farms accelerate uptake with growers. Biotechnology, tissue-culture, and trait-profiling laboratories generate clean planting materials and support breeding; postharvest and product-development facilities back process optimization and equipment prototyping. The institute is funded by Nigeria’s federal government through the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria, with additional competitive support from development partners. An Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office facilitates IP, licensing, and commercialization with processors and SMEs.