Livestock Sector Holds Promise As Nigeria’s ‘Next Crude Oil’– Minister

Minister of Livestock Development, Idi Mukhtar Maiha, has described Nigeria’s immense onshore resources arsenic an untapped economical plus and pledged stronger partnerships with manufacture players to trim the country’s reliance connected imported nutrient and dairy products.

Maiha spoke yesterday astatine the 66th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES) successful Abuja, wherever helium underscored the livestock sector’s imaginable to go a large operator of nationalist growth.

“We person farmlands; we are looking astatine applicable ideas to alteration this sector. The aboriginal of this state is not successful our hands but successful our land. Through the Renewed Hope Agenda of Mr. President, the livestock assemblage contiguous volition beryllium the adjacent crude oil,” Maiha said.

He said revitalising livestock accumulation would boost nutrient security, make jobs, and pull investments crossed the worth chain.

Also addressing the conference, the curate of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu, reiterated the national government’s committedness to involving professionals successful shaping the absorption of ongoing economical reforms.

Similarly, a erstwhile curate of Finance, Dr. Shamsudeen Usman, called for accrued information of economists successful governance, stressing the value of authorities to enforce the implementation of nationalist improvement plans.