The Federal Government says the execution of the National livestock transformation Plan, NLTP, will close the dairy importation gaps and address other challenges to livestock development in Nigeria.
An Information Officer, in the ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Juliet Okeh in a statement said the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Mohammad Abubakar made the assertion at a virtual meeting, with Commissioners of Agriculture across the 36 states of the federation. The meeting included the FCT and other stakeholders on the State Level Project Socialisation on Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project, L-PRES.
The Minister, who was represented by the Director, Animal Husbandry Services Department in the Ministry, Winnie Lai-Solarin noted that the L-PRES program, was a project to support the actualization of the NLTP.
Also, World Bank, Country Director Shubham Chadhri said the programme was designed to realise the full potential in the livestock sector in Nigeria and urged state governments to key into it.
He added that implementing the programme across the nation would go a long way in the reduction of poverty, providing job opportunities, and grow the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP.
