The
federal government is working towards reducing milk importation into
the country by 2019, minister of agriculture and rural development,
Chief Audu Ogbeh has said.
He made this known at a multi-stakeholder conference with the theme; ‘Milky Way to Development’ held in Abuja.
Represented
by the director of animal production and husbandry services, Dr.
Egejuru Eze, the minister said the country’s annual national dairy
output and demand were estimated at 700,000 metric tons and 1,300,000
metric tons respectively, giving a supply gap of about 600,000 metric
tons.
He
said:” We are partnering with major national and international
stakeholder in the dairy sector to inject a considerable volume of
locally produced raw powdered milk processed in Nigeria to meet the
national demand and drastically reduce milk importation by the year
2019.”
Vice
Chairman, Arla Foods, Jan Toft Noergaard said the conference was
organised to discuss and offer solution to challenges facing the dairy
sector in Nigeria and the rest of West Africa and to improve the
livelihood of farmers in the dairy sector.
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