The Kebbi State Government has said it is ready for a rewarding mutual partnership with Egypt on agriculture and livestock production development.
While receiving Egyptian agriculture experts who visited him at the Government House Birnin Kebbi this weekend, Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu said Kebbi State is endowed with high agricultural potential and is rated as the second largest livestock producing state in the country.
Bagudu added that Kebbi has become the gateway to West Africa in animal husbandry due to its strategic location and sharing boundaries with both the Republic of Niger and the Benin Republic.
“Kebbi State has signed a tripartite agreement with Kwanni in the Niger Republic and Maleville in the Republic of Benin on the development of animal husbandry,” he said.
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“Kebbi people are hardworking and ready to imbibe modern methods on agricultural and livestock production,” he said.
He commended the National President of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, for facilitating the visit of the Egyptian experts to the state and preparing ground for joint mutual cooperation in the agricultural sector.
Bagudu said the president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the governor-elect, Nasir Idris, have respectively pledged to strengthen the work President Buhari and himself have done during their administrations.
The Egyptian team leader, General Walid Yahia Soliman Morsy, said they were in Kebbi State for joint partnership with the state government to explore areas of interest in agriculture and livestock production.
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