Minister Woos Private Sector To Tap Livestock, Agric Potential

Minister of Livestock Development, Idi Murkta Maiha, has reiterated the national government’s committedness to strengthening collaboration with the backstage assemblage to unlock the immense imaginable of Nigeria’s livestock and cultivation sectors.

At the Africa Agriculture Dialogue 2025 held successful Abuja, the curate said specified partnerships were captious to achieving nutrient security, creating jobs, reducing poorness and driving economical diversification successful enactment with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

“To unlock the afloat imaginable of our cultivation sector, we indispensable amended entree to finance, exertion and knowledge. This is wherefore our collaboration with the African Development Bank and different stakeholders—including herders and processors—is captious to ensuring inclusive information crossed the cultivation worth chain,” the curate said.

Maiha said agriculture and peculiarly the recently established Ministry of Livestock Development, remains cardinal to the administration’s translation efforts, adding that Nigeria has the capableness to replicate and adjacent surpass planetary occurrence stories successful cultivation productivity.

“Countries similar Denmark and Ghana, which are little endowed than Nigeria, person transformed their cultivation sectors. With focus, innovation and beardown institutions, determination is nary crushed Nigeria cannot execute adjacent greater success,” helium said.

Maiha underscored the worth of the livestock industry, saying each portion of an carnal meat, dairy, leather and by-products person economical importance.

“Our task is to physique systems that person these opportunities into sustainable businesses,” helium added.

The consul-general of Denmark, Jette Bjerrum, said her state was committed to sharing applicable cognition and risk-mitigation strategies to enactment Nigeria’s cultivation transformation.

Also, the president of the Global Cooperation Promotion Research Centre, Mr Li Zhensheng, announced plans to present China’s h2o conservation technologies to code irrigation challenges and alteration year-round farming.

A typical of the African Development Bank Group, Dr Abdul Kamara, assured participants of the Bank’s continued enactment for cultivation translation crossed the continent.

The two-day dialogue, themed “Unlocking Finance for Agricultural Transformation successful Africa,” brought unneurotic cardinal authorities officials, backstage investors, and improvement partners to illustration strategies for strengthening cultivation worth chains and improving smallholder husbandman productivity.