Nigeria: Lagos Strikes to Increase Meals Safety

The Lagos State authorities has mentioned it could enhance meals safety, throughout the state and likewise improve the availability of healthful beef, saying strategic plans are being developed and carried out to bridge the annual 1.380 million deficit in crimson meat consumption.

Everlasting Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Mrs. Olatokunbo Emokpae disclosed this on the weekend in her tackle at a workshop organised by the state authorities, in collaboration with the Meals and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, on the Technical Cooperation Facility Venture Feasibility and Worth Chain Evaluation of the Pink Meat Worth Chain, significantly the Cattle Feedlot Property in Lagos.

Emokpae mentioned the workshop was aimed toward exposing traders to the funding alternatives out there within the Ministry’s Feedlot Property Venture which span cattle manufacturing, processing, logistics, beef advertising and distribution, amongst others.

She added that the workshop was additionally focused at figuring out the mission capability wants, evaluating environmental points that might come up throughout its implementation and proffering options to mitigate them.

She defined that in view of the inherent financial potential of cattle manufacturing, and the necessity to improve the availability of healthful beef in Lagos, and by extension contribute to the attainment of the state’s meals safety agenda, the administration of Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has established a Cattle Feedlot mission for which a 750Ha parcel of land was acquired at Igbodu, Epe.

Thus far, Emokpae mentioned, a complete of 250Ha has been cleared and parcelled into a lot of 5Ha every for allocation to traders, including that the feedlot mission may also facilitate beef traceability amongst many different well being advantages for Lagosians, generate earnings for traders, create jobs and stimulate financial actions inside the mission group.

Whereas calling on all improvement companions and traders to affix the state in actualising the dream of creating Lagos food-secured, Emokpae mentioned, apart from the feedlot mission, alternatives additionally exist in different areas of the crimson meat worth chain of which traders can take benefit and make good returns on funding.

These she mentioned embrace the institution of 18 semi-mechanised and eight mechanised abattoirs established in numerous places throughout the state.