With the consensus that ranching is the way forward, I would like to see Nigeria set herself the goal of becoming a top 10 milk producer by 2030
We are shamelessly a net importer of milk at the moment. In 2019, Nigeria only produced a paltry 523,599 tonnes of milk domestically.

We consume about 1.3bn tonnes of milk annually, so spend between $1.2bn and $1.5bn annually to bridge the gap between production and consumption. Once we have these mega ranches in place, we must set them steep milk production targets.

Once more, we simply refuse to be productive. However, let us set ourselves the goal of joining these countries:
US – 91.3bn tonnes
India – 60.6bn tonnes
China – 35.7bn tonnes
Brazil – 34.3bn tonnes
Germany – 31.1bn tonnes
Russia – 30.3bn tonnes
France – 23.7bn tonnes
New Zealand – 18.9bn tonnes
Turkey – 16.7bn tonnes
UK – 13.9bn tonnes
Personally, I would build one mega ranch each in the six largest states of Nigeria and get a dairy company to open a nearby milk processing plant. If you have one such plant in Niger, Borno, Taraba, Yobe, Kaduna and Bauchi states, with each producing say 200m tonnes of milk a year, we are nearly there.

Written by:
Ayo Akinfe, born in Salford, Manchester, is a London-based journalist who has worked as a magazine and newspaper editor for the last 20 years. Ayo attended Federal Government College Kaduna and obtained his first degree in history from the University of Ibadan.

SOURCE:https://brandspurng.com/2021/02/19/ranching-system-can-make-nigeria-among-the-top-10-producers-of-milk/

This is expository! We need to wake up as a 'nation'.

Lalasticlala please do the needful for all to read.

Aptly put!

That's the only way forward! Anything less than that is dangerously dangerous!

Oga Seun. Please push this to front page perhaps some of our governor that always sneak to nairaland might see it and take the right decisions.