The solution is having agric cows, like we have agric chicken. At present all our cows are local just imagine how chicken would have finished if not for agric ones that becomes edible at 6 weeks.

We should have genetically improved cows in Nigeria for meat and for milk

Beef is scarce, so? Even the money to buy it is scarce .

Suprnov3r:
The so called honesty of Buhari is very dubious. His famed integrity is mere whitewashing propaganda. His own words, actions and inactions puts him at par with any corrupt and ineffective administration

Buhari clearly said he will stop foreign medicals for elected officers... 3 months now he is in London

Buhari did not declare his wealth after he won

Buhari said Abacha did not steal and was not corrupt

Buhari kinsmen which means cousins, nephews and in laws control all the major financial decisions in Nigeria

Buratai and his boys have been fingered in many corruption scandals but they are leading our military arm

Buhari kinsmen stole food donated by Saudi Arabia for IDPs but no one has been punished

CBN was caught selling dollars to the cabal at ridiculous rates when businesses were shutting down due to forex but no one was punished.

Silent recruitment in all top tier positions of Buhari kinsmen and cohorts

Lopsided appointment of his people into government positions and jobs

Media has been silenced with threats and bribes. Even boko haram atrocities are no longer reported

Release of boko haram suspects is a daily reality

Corruption in INEC. All the elections conducted under Buhari has showed gross rigging by INEC in collusion with the police for APC.


Buhari is spending millions of naira sending his children to school abroad. Gej daughters schooled in UNIPORT Nigeria.

Buhari children are marrying oil block private jet billionaires yet GEJ daughter is a commoner, struggling like the rest of us... a redeem church usher living in calabar with her husband

The same president condemned Yar adua during his ill health yet they are after protesters who condemn his hold on power even when not fit

Thousands have been killed by the army... shites and ipob yet they still want us to gej did worse?
Every industry is worse off now than under gej

Millions of jobs lost due to useless forex restrictions. These restrictions have been relaxed under Osibanjo grin meanwhile they ensured the cabal got enough for dollars up north

No sense at all

Good riddance for bad rubbish. Human Body was not designed to function well as a cannibalist. We are herbivores by design.

Instead of people to take this rare opportunity to invest,... anyway not my business. I have picked something useful already

Destined2win:
OK. If cows finish, everybody should move over to rats and lizards

Is this what you want to feed me with?

It's high time people take over the business of cattle rearing from the fulani's.They have been using same subsistence methods/ technology since time memorial. With new technologies cattle don't have to be moved around for grazing, thus limiting confrontations and violence with local farmers.

MossadAgent:


We are even their primary market and they have the guts to come down to occupy our own land and kill our people

We are to blame. Let's start breeding our own cows .


Let them kill themselves!

BeautifulSE:
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We know you're looking for likes. Today is Sunday, you won't get it

Likes?

It is sad that the Nigerian youth is pre occupied with stupid shallow things while the reality of how bad things are evade you. My problem is with the media and people like you controlling the narrative with useless statements.

Please get a life. I am not your problem. Your problem is buhari useless polices, that's why you cannot get a job... People who have jobs will never confuse a Monday morning with a sunday morning

spinna:
i can attest... @ opeloyeru buka i take 5 pieces of meat.

This is not a problem, its an opportunity for Southern livestock farmers.

For the man with the head, the opportunity is huge my brother.

esthel:
Red meat is dangerous to our health, fulani beef can be adequately substituted with chicken which is healthier, bushmeat, snail, ponmo, fish etc, in fact we want to be vegetarians sef.

Hahahaha. Ponmo is a cow product?

NwaAmaikpe:


What does Audu Ogbeh know?

His senses have not been the same since he received that brain-resetting slap from Obasanjo on that cold morning of January 10, 2005.

Meat can never be scarce,
We have bushmeat, we have dogmeat, we have fish, we also have anu-mmadu.
The FG is indirectly trying to tell us the Fulani Herdsmen are indispensable.

No they aren't.
They should take their cows back to the North.

Our ancestors did not eat Hausa cow meat and they thrived well.
Fulani must leave the South.

Uncle.... You are retarded I know, if those meat you mentioned will be sufficient for you and your generation, stop eating cow beef. The number of consumers will reduce.... SIR

This is dangerous!
I wish this problem can be tackled earnestly fast before some cultures relapsed back to cannibalism.

sweatlana:

We are to blame. Let's start breeding our own cows .


Let them kill themselves!

The Fulani is moving down south to graze and that should tell you that our depleted rain forest which once formed a barrier for cattle grazing has now opened a new front for both the fulani herdsmen and their jihadist quest.

We have everything to gain by going into intense cattle grazing to displace the Fulani hegenomy

We are their biggest market guaranteed by a common market through the Nigerian franchise.

If the coward governors refuse to roll out and implement a ban on open grazing then we must start considering eliminating the fulani out of our markets by taking over their dominant position.

Its that simple!

NwaAmaikpe:


What does Audu Ogbeh know?

His senses have not been the same since he received that brain-resetting slap from Obasanjo on that cold morning of January 10, 2005.

Meat can never be scarce,
We have bushmeat, we have dogmeat, we have fish, we also have anu-mmadu.
The FG is indirectly trying to tell us the Fulani Herdsmen are indispensable.

No they aren't.
They should take their cows back to the North.

Our ancestors did not eat Hausa cow meat and they thrived well.
Fulani must leave the South.

but really did obj really woose him

We have stock fish

NwaAmaikpe:


What does Audu Ogbeh know?

His senses have not been the same since he received that brain-resetting slap from Obasanjo on that cold morning of January 10, 2005.

Meat can never be scarce,
We have bushmeat, we have dogmeat, we have fish, we also have anu-mmadu.
The FG is indirectly trying to tell us the Fulani Herdsmen are indispensable.

No they aren't.
They should take their cows back to the North.

Our ancestors did not eat Hausa cow meat and they thrived well.
Fulani must leave the South.

If you took your time to read and understand before spewing hate, you would have observed h condemned grazing as a means of rearing cattle, called for innovation from Universities of Agriculture and called for investment in that sector.

All those sources of meat are not sustainable. That is why you can't depend on them like your parents did

Bubu is working... I Neva see food chop nah meat I go dey look, abeg give me food leave the meat joor

This is not an excuse for grazing reserve.
We have more than enough land for those in the biz to buy from those willing to sell their land for ranching.

Suprnov3r:
The so called honesty of Buhari is very dubious. His famed integrity is mere whitewashing propaganda. His own words, actions and inactions puts him at par with any corrupt and ineffective administration

Buhari clearly said he will stop foreign medicals for elected officers... 3 months now he is in London

Buhari did not declare his wealth after he won

Buhari said Abacha did not steal and was not corrupt

Buhari kinsmen which means cousins, nephews and in laws control all the major financial decisions in Nigeria

Buratai and his boys have been fingered in many corruption scandals but they are leading our military arm

Buhari kinsmen stole food donated by Saudi Arabia for IDPs but no one has been punished

CBN was caught selling dollars to the cabal at ridiculous rates when businesses were shutting down due to forex but no one was punished.

Silent recruitment in all top tier positions of Buhari kinsmen and cohorts

Lopsided appointment of his people into government positions and jobs

Media has been silenced with threats and bribes. Even boko haram atrocities are no longer reported

Release of boko haram suspects is a daily reality

Corruption in INEC. All the elections conducted under Buhari has showed gross rigging by INEC in collusion with the police for APC.


Buhari is spending millions of naira sending his children to school abroad. Gej daughters schooled in UNIPORT Nigeria.

Buhari children are marrying oil block private jet billionaires yet GEJ daughter is a commoner, struggling like the rest of us... a redeem church usher living in calabar with her husband

The same president condemned Yar adua during his ill health yet they are after protesters who condemn his hold on power even when not fit

Thousands have been killed by the army... shites and ipob yet they still want us to gej did worse?
Every industry is worse off now than under gej

Millions of jobs lost due to useless forex restrictions. These restrictions have been relaxed under Osibanjo grin meanwhile they ensured the cabal got enough for dollars up north

The man has no honour. No shame. No love for the country he governs. http://www.mortalpoet.com/thus-spoke-buhari-yaradua-resign-right-thing/

elantraceey:



Is this what you want to feed me with?

That was a joke na.

Might be yummy though. Hmmm

NPComplete:
Hahahaha. It's just now u guys are realising cows are not horses.

Ban grazing reserves and cattle herding then implement ranching. The Fulani's won't like it at first but eventually they will realise the wisdom there.

Very correct. Audu Ogbe should just bury this his obsession with grazing reserves. The South will Never accept it! The poster we quoted has the best idea, Mr Ogbe.

NwaAmaikpe:


What does Audu Ogbeh know?

His senses have not been the same since he received that brain-resetting slap from Obasanjo on that cold morning of January 10, 2005.

Meat can never be scarce,
We have bushmeat, we have dogmeat, we have fish, we also have anu-mmadu.
The FG is indirectly trying to tell us the Fulani Herdsmen are indispensable.

No they aren't.
They should take their cows back to the North.

Our ancestors did not eat Hausa cow meat and they thrived well.
Fulani must leave the South.

Quit foaming at the mouth and never touch beef again lets see

The next thing we hear is to import grass as the solution and yet goats will be exported to Saudi Arabia when we don't have enough meat to go round in Nigeria like we export crude oil and import petroleum products maybe we will start importing meat at the same time exporting goat.
Nigeria sha we too strong

Truth234:
The federal government has raised the alarm on the rising demand for beef in the country, vis-a-vis its availability, saying the gap could lead to the scarcity of beef and dairy products in the country.

The outlook was given by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, at a meeting with members of the Governing Councils of the three Federal Universities of Agriculture in Abeokuta, Makurdi and Umudike.

Ogbeh said the country was consuming more cows per day than it was actually breeding, warning that if the disparity was not controlled, it would not be long before the country runs out of beef supply.

Lagos State, according to him, has the largest consumption share of 6,000 cows per day.

He added that the daily demand for cow meat was equally high in the FCT and five other states including, Rivers, Abia, Imo, Oyo, and Kano.

“We are consuming more cows than we are calving. Lagos State alone consumes 6,000 cows per day. Add the figure from Rivers, Abia, Imo, Oyo, Kano States and FCT, it might not be long before we run out of beef,” Ogbeh said.

He described the local cattle breed as about the least in the world, adding on the average Nigerian cows produce less than a litre of milk per day.

According to World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates, Nigeria needs about 1.5 billion litres of milk annually.

Ogbeh said due to the gap, government was spending billions to import powdered and reconstituted milk of low quality without any effect as 37 per cent of Nigerian children are malnourished.

He appealed to the university community to rise up to the challenges by teaching people artificial insemination, saying their prompt response is key towards resolving the crises.

The minister explained that Nigeria cattle produce low dairy yields daily arising from undernourishment and the grazing system for pasture.

“In East Africa, they achieve 15 litres, some 20 litres. In Europe, they achieve 50 litres. The secrets are breeds and nutrition. Here, the roaming cows look lean, with poor meat quality. Cows are not meant to march around. They are not horses,’’ he said.

The minister also enjoined the agriculture universities to be more innovative and enterprising by making it mandatory for every undergraduate to own a farm from 200 level to graduation while examinations should dwell 60 per cent on the success on the farm and 40 per cent on academic work.

http://investorsking.com/fg-warns-of-beef-dairy-products-scarcity/

So what do they want Nigerians to do ? Abi should we reduce our beef consumption ? These government sef

Weldone Sir,was almost reacting like the usual untill I read it the second time.Thanks for ur recommendations but d Population of students is much to own such farmlands.

This is just part of the script by the north to make the fulani feel important and indispensable.

MossadAgent:


The Fulani is moving down south to graze and that should tell you that our depleted rain forest which once formed a barrier for cattle grazing has now opened a new front for both the fulani herdsmen and their jihadist quest.

We have everything to gain by going into intense cattle grazing to displace the Fulani hegenomy

We are their biggest market guaranteed by a common market through the Nigerian franchise.

If the coward governors refuse to roll out and implement a ban on open grazing then we must start considering eliminating the fulani out of our markets by taking over their dominant position.

Its that simple!

Commercial ranching is the only solution, as you have rightly pointed out. The thought of taking people's ancestral lands for grazing reserve is abhorrent and will never be a reality in the South.

The North has 85% of Nigeria's agricultural land, so, why would some people be looking to take the South's tiny 15%!? Bullshit!

sweatlana:
Fulani must go.

We should breed our own cows here in the south.

If you happen to be the ones breeding cows, one cow for don reach N1.5m by now

Who cares about beef anyway. I can't remember wen last I used beef. At home, it's either chicken or goat meet. Den while eating out, I could go with Bush meat n assorted. To hell with fulani cattle.

mfm04622:


If you took your time to read and understand before spewing hate, you would have observed h condemned grazing as a means of rearing cattle, called for innovation from Universities of Agriculture and called for investment in that sector.

All those sources of meat are not sustainable. That is why you can't depend on them like your parents did

It's sad that most comments are out of place purely from the fact that they refused to read the article.
If they had taken time out to read they would know better.