Livestock Farmers Praise Tinubu, Wike Over Incentives

Livestock farmers successful the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) person expressed gratitude to the FCT minister, Barr Nyesom Wike and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone (SAPZ) programme initiative, which was utilized to administer bulls to them past year.

They said the caller incentives person helped them to summation their productivity and income.

Speaking connected their behalf, Taminu Umar of Tabita Fulaku Livestock Cooperative Group during a monitoring and valuation workout astatine Paikon-Kore, praised Wike and the SAPZ task coordinator for their efforts successful implementing the initiative, adding that they judge that the strategy would trim unemployment and insecurity successful Nigeria by providing economical opportunities for farmers.

The farmers urged the authorities to proceed specified initiatives to amended the surviving standards of farmers not lone successful the FCT but crossed Nigeria. “This sentiment reflects the SAPZ programme’s affirmative interaction connected section farmers and its imaginable to lend to the country’s economical maturation and stability,” helium said.

The coordinator of the FCT-SAPZ Project, Dr. Omole Olateju, said the is to measure the show of cooperative groups that received input enactment nether the FCT SAPZ Project.

He said the workout was to measure the show of the animals fixed to the groups, place challenges faced by them successful applying their knowledge, find the project’s interaction connected existing accumulation practices, and pass aboriginal capacity-building initiatives.

Omole stated that the task is presently being implemented successful 7 states and the FCT, with each authorities focusing connected the worth concatenation wherever it has a comparative advantage.

The coordinator hoped the task would beryllium expanded to different grazing reserves and country councils successful the FC to summation its interaction and visibility.

Also, the livestock improvement officer, FCT-SAPZ, Usman Vandu, reported that 11 livestock farmers were fixed the bulls for fattening purposes, each receiving 2 bulls.