The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Nigeria says governors from eleven states have provided 5000 hectares of land each in their states, for the establishment of grazing reserves.






The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Mr. Audu Ogbeh disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the upcoming retreat on Livestock and Dairy Development in Abuja, the Nigerian capital.

He said the ministry wrote to states and eleven of them responded.

The states are: Plateau, Kaduna, Kano, Gombe, Katsina, Taraba, Niger, Adamawa, Jigawa and Sokoto states.

Mr. Audu Ogbeh said the Federal government was also working to settle herdsmen on grazing reserves.

“If we can grass up these land areas, there will be no need for cows to roam from north to south and that is what we intend to achieve.”

He further explained that government will make provisions on the grazing reserves for schools for the children of herdsmen, markets for their wives, health and security facilities to be made available for them.

On the two day retreat, Mr. Ogbeh said the two day retreat is aimed at looking into how Nigeria can improve on the commercialization of the dairy and livestock industry in the country to boost food production and generate funds.

“So far in Nigeria has an estimated 19.5 million cattle; 72.5 million goats; 41.3 million sheep; 7.1 million pigs; 278,840 thousand camels; 145 million chickens; 11.6m ducks, 2.1 million turkeys, and 974,499 thousand donkeys, making Nigeria the number one livestock producer with 31.66% cattle, 46.3% sheep, 51.11% pig and 99.38% poultry in West Africa”, he said.

Mr. Ogbeh also decried the state of milk production in Nigeria

“Our milk production is extremely poor with about 1 litre per cow per day compared to Brazil and Saudi Arabia of 30-40 litrs per cow per day. Saudi Arabia produces 4.7 million litres of milk daily while Nigeria imports about $1.3bn worth of milk annually to make up the deficit.”

The Minister added that the way forward in improving the livestock and dairy industry is to intensifying efforts to add value to the industry along respective value chains.

The two day upcoming retreat which has at its theme; “Setting an agenda for commercializing Livestock and Dairy commodity value chain in Nigeria, is scheduled to hold on the seventh and eighth of June in Abuja.

Source: http://www.barbaric.com.ng/eleven-states-offer-land-grazing-reserve/

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Good!
Stick the grazing reserves up North!

Plateau and Taraba still donating Land to blood suckerz?
Okay ooo. Good luck to you, but don;t cry foul to anybody after.

YourNemesis:
Plateau and Taraba still donating Land to blood suckerz?
Okay ooo. Good luck to you, but don;t cry foul to anybody after.

They have no other option but to donate their land.
If they don't, that means there would likely be more bloodshed, in the quest for grazing.
The question is: will the Land they donated for grazing reserves, stop the genocide?
Time will tell.

Since this old man came into office, all he's saddled with is foreign grass and fulani herdsmen

i hope this elephant project will be funded by revenues from the north.

because you can't fund anpther man's business and then cater for their foreigners(according the the nomad president) with scarce public funds without recieving returns from them.

and to think the owners of these cattles are very wealthy people in thr society.

na wa for this country.

That's good and I see no reason why that won't be enough for all d cows. So they can av it in their states and leave others.

Good development.

It is better like this, so that the states which want to volunteer would volunteer, and those which want to lease of sell will lease or sell.

Hmmm Plateau state is playing with fire.

This source enn!!

Britboy:

They have no other option but to donate their land.
If they don't, that means there would likely be more bloodshed, in the quest for grazing.
The question is: will the Land they donated for grazing reserves, stop the genocide?
Time will tell.

It won't stop it but it will make it higher cos the numbers of fulanis at the region will increase and they will always claim right of some bullshits.

They will make this a priority because they (the top politicians) own those cows.

Plateau state? what were you guys thinking? hmmmmmmm!!