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From Sylvanus Viashima, Jalingo
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, yesterday, distributed millions of naira worth of relief materials to over 300 livestock farmers who were affected by a flood in Taraba in 2022.
Flagging off the exercise in Jalingo, the state capital, the Director, of the Department of Animal Husbandry Services, Mrs. Winnie Lai-Solarin explained that Federal Government was mindful of the role of livestock farmers in the sustenance of the food security value chain in the country.
She said that the ministry had provided the affected farmers with 600 hundred bags of livestock pasture seeds for growing improved grass and 600 hundred bags of nutrition cake with the aim of boosting the quality and quantity of beef and dairy products from their farms.
According to her, with the concentration and encouragement of improved grass and production of proteinous cake for the animals, the ministry aimed at reducing the age-long conflicts between livestock and crop farmers to the barest minimum.
“Gamba grass and andropogon seeds are simple to grow and good food supplement for animals that would, over time, reduce the frequency of movement of livestock from one area to another in search of pasture,” she said.
She reassured the farmers that the government would continue to render support to them to continue to play their roles in the food security value chain.
In his goodwill message at the occasion, the Permanent Secretary Taraba State Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Mr. Sale Pavali, expressed appreciation for the intervention of the Federal Government.
