The Federal Government says it would soon ban the
importation of fish and milk into the country.
Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Sabo Nanono
disclosed this at the official commissioning of the Agribusiness incubation
center (AIC) at Federal University Dutse, in Jigawa State.
Nanono said the Federal Government will further look
critically on all food importation into the country.
The Minister explained that Nigeria is blessed with so many
resources and opportunities, stressing that there is nothing which is imported
that is not produced in the country.
” We will look critically into the importation of any food
into the country because we all have it, Nigeria is a country where we eat what
we produce and produce what we eat” he stated.
He said Nigeria has about 25m cows in the country but the
only problem the country has is how to get the milk.
He said the Federal Government has commenced small scale
milk processing centers to mitigate the importation of milk into the country.
“We have over seven of these centers and we are going to do
more in the country, we also opened one in Dawakin- Kudu last year and the
center alone is galvanizing over 12 thousand Fulani cattle rearers in the area”
Nanono noted.
“If we take fish, there are so many fish infrastructures
also in this country abandoned and not utilized”
The minister, however, said the Federal Government is also
working to revive them and also create the new ones.
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