Nigeria’s Government secures 55,000 hectares in eleven States for grazing reserves
By Chinyere Ogbonna – Federal Government says that it has secured fifty-five (55,000) hectares of land from eleven states for the development of pasture and paddocks grazing reserve in the country.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, gave this indication while briefing journalists on the Federal Government’s achievements in the Agriculture sector in commemoration of this year’s World Food Day in Abuja, the nation’s Federal Capital Territory.
He noted that the government had also procured exotic grass seedlings to enhance paddock fodder package and increase domestic beef and milk output in a sedentary grazing reserve set up.
The Minister said that the ministry had also trained animal skin collectors, butchers, hides and skin inspectors on standard methods of slaughtering to ensure supply of quality hides and skins and at globally acceptable standards.
Chief Ogbeh also disclosed that the Federal Government had facilitated the construction and completion of thirty-three (33) silo complexes with a capacity of one million three hundred and sixty thousand tonnes (1,360,000 tonnes).
He explained that the silos and the forty-eight (48) commodity warehouses also constructed, would aid the storage of agro-inputs and products. The Federal Government says that it has secured 55,000 hectares of land from eleven states of the federation for the development of pasture and paddocks grazing reserve in the country.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, gave this indication while briefing journalists on the Federal Government’s achievements in the sector in commemoration of this year’s World Food Day in Abuja, the nation’s Federal Capital Territory.
The minister said that the government had also procured exotic grass seedlings to enhance paddock fodder package and increase domestic beef and milk output in a sedentary grazing reserve set up. He said that the ministry had also trained animal skin collectors, butchers, hides and skin inspectors on standard methods of slaughtering to ensure supply of quality hides and skins and at acceptable standards.
Chief Ogbeh also revealed that the Federal Government had facilitated the construction and completion of thirty-three silo complexes with a capacity of one million three hundred and sixty thousand (1,360,000) tonnes. He said the silos and the forty-eight commodity warehouses also constructed, would aid the storage of agro-inputs and products.
