The Chief Executive Officer of Promosalons Nigeria Limited, Akin Akinbola has said that animal feeds production technologies will help put an end to the issue of herdsmen attacks which have become prevalent in the country in recent times.
Mr. Akinbola revealed this to AgroNigeria at the just concluded 3rd International Trade Exhibition Agrofood & Plastprintpack Nigeria 2017 held at the Landmark Center Victoria Island Lagos.
According to him “Animal production is a big issue in the country today. We all know the problem between the farmers and the herdsmen in the country. We have so many new technologies that will avert that, because today basically we are looking at having only green area whereby we can also have different kind of animal feeds that can be used against cattle ranch and against moving animal from one end to another”.
He explained that once these technologies are fully embraced, there would not be need for grazing of animals from one place to another.
“Once you have enough animal feeds and you create ranches, you just give them the feeds. This will prevent the animals from moving from place to place, destroying farms”.
When asked of the affordability of these technologies to the farmers, Akinbola said “It is going to be affordable because the feeds are not going to be imported. The only thing we may import is the additives and that’s going to make the feeds cheaper and affordable to farmers.”
He however urged government to organise awareness programmes for farmers, educating them on how they can also produce some feeds on their own, as well as embracing new technologies in production of animal feeds.
“Government needs to partner with the institutes of technology, research institutes, to look for the substitute to the feeds instead of relying on the orthodox way of feeding the animals. We need to produce enough animal feeds on our own” he said.
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