Abuja – Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh says 11 states have provided 55,000 hectares to establish ranches to curb farmers and pastoralists clashes in their states.
Ogbeh made this known at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja.
Ogbeh said the states are Plateau, Kaduna, Kano, Gombe....
Katsina, Taraba, Niger, Adamawa, Jigawa, Sokoto and the FCT.
He said of all the enterprise in the livestock sector, only the poultry industry had achieved an appreciable level of commercialisation.
Ogbeh said other industries in the livestock sector were predominantly in the hands of subsistence farmers with pastoralist system of production contributing over 90 per cent of cattle production in the country.
He said the 2011 National Agricultural Sample Survey indicated that Nigeria was endowed with an estimated 19.5 million cattle, 72.5 million goats, 41.3 million sheep, 7.1 million pigs and 28,000 camels.
Accordingly, the minister said the country had 145 million chickens, 11. 6 million ducks, 1.2 million turkeys and 974, 499 donkeys.
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