The federal government has launched a Multi-stakeholder Platform (MSP) to structure the Nigerian livestock fodder and feed sector that will attract multibillion naira to the country’s economy.
The team is to ensure that the neglected feed and fodder system emerges into a vibrant sector of the nation’s agro-economy.
Members of the Multi-stakeholder Platform comprised of seasoned experts from the academia, feed and fodder business community, dairy and other livestock farmers, farmers’ associations, the media, members of the financial institutions and other key industry players.
Professor Ari Maikano, an expert in animal nutrition from the Nasarawa State University Keffi has been given the responsibility to chair the platform that will eventually lead to the emergence of the feed and fodder sector in Nigeria.
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The platform was facilitated by the African Union-InterAfrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) through the ‘Resilient African Feed and Fodder Systems’ project.
While launching the platform in Abuja, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Dr. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, said that the neglect of the feed and fodder system resulted into the constant farmers-herders clashes in the country.
“If you look at the employment opportunities inherent in this sector, honestly it is not what you will ignore.
“I’m happy that we have identified all the pathways – and clearly from the output of what has been done, we now have a clear line of sight to how we are going to drive the feed and fodder sector to become that industrial and economic hub that everybody would want to come into,” the minister told the stakeholders.
Dr. Sabi believed that the emergence of this feed and fodder sector in Nigeria would end farmers-herders clashes in the country.
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