{"id":20530,"date":"2019-09-10T19:33:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T19:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=20530"},"modified":"2019-09-10T19:33:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T19:33:42","slug":"vp-osinbajo-flags-off-national-livestock-transformation-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=20530","title":{"rendered":"VP Osinbajo flags off National Livestock Transformation Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Muhammad Adam<\/strong> (NAN)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) at the Gongoshi Grazing Reserve in Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of Adamawa.<br \/><br \/> Inaugurating the project on Tuesday, Osinbajo said the plan is designed to run from 2019-2028 as part of Federal Government\u2019s initiative in collaboration with States under the auspices of the National Economic Council (NEC).<br \/><br \/> He said the plan, targeted at supporting the development of Nigeria\u2019s livestock sector, is to be implemented in seven pilot states of Adamawa, Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba and Zamfara.<br \/><br \/> According to the vice president, the plan will be implemented as a collaboration project between the Federal and State governments, farmers, pastoralists and private investors.<br \/><br \/> \u201cIn this plan the State Government or private investors provide the land, the federal government does not and will not take any land from a State or local government.<br \/><br \/> \u201cAny participating state will provide the land and its own contribution to the project. The federal government merely supports.<br \/><br \/> \u201cIt is a plan that hopes to birth tailor made ranches where cattle are bred, and meat and dairy products are produced using modern livestock breeding and dairy methods.<br \/><br \/> \u201cThis solves the problem of cattle grazing into and destroying farmlands. It ensures a practical response to the pressures on water and pasture by forces of climate change,\u201d Osinbajo said.<br \/><br \/> He noted that the plan was designed to provide modern meat and dairy industry and in some cases integrated crop farming.<br \/><br \/> According to Osinbajo, the unique feature of the plan is that any participating state will determine its own model.<br \/><br \/> \u201cI wish to emphasise that this is not RUGA. Because the idea of RUGA settlements launched by the Ministry of Agriculture created a problem when it was perceived as a plan to seize lands to create settlements for herders.<br \/><br \/> \u201cRUGA was not the plan designed and approved by the governors and the President rightly suspended the implementation,\u201d Osinbajo said.<br \/><br \/> He said that the NLTP was endorsed by all governors and could only be implemented with the full participation and consent of the governors and the people of the state.<br \/><br \/> He said no state could be forced to participate, adding that Adamawa had chosen to begin the implementation of the plan.<br \/><br \/> He noted Adamawa state experienced several crises on account of clashes between herders and farmers resulting in the destruction of lives and property.<br \/><br \/> He also observed that the introduction of the livestock transformation plan was a win-win for the state and its people, and would provide a basis for peaceful coexistence, jobs for many and a mechanism for resolving disputes.<br \/><br \/> Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa said that the flag-off of the plan was a robust all encompassing life-changing transformation programme in the livestock sub-sector.<br \/><br \/> Fintiri said the introduction of the plan was the solution desired for peaceful coexistence among diverse people of the state.<br \/><br \/> \u201cThe Plan will create job opportunities and solve lingering conflict between farmers and herders,\u201d Fintiri said.<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Muhammad Adam (NAN) The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) at the Gongoshi Grazing Reserve in Mayo-Belwa Local Government Area of Adamawa. Inaugurating the project on Tuesday, Osinbajo said the plan is designed to run from 2019-2028 as part of Federal Government\u2019s initiative in collaboration with States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5779,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-agriculture","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}