Kogi state governor, Yahaya
Bello, says the state will soon be like Holland of Nigeria in terms of dairy
milk production and other livestock products for other states to patronise.
Bello said this at the Kogi State
Agriculture Summit, tagged: “Moving Agriculture To The Next Level”, on Friday
in Lokoja.
“In Holland, everyone knows that
Holland produce more than a quarter of dairy milk and meats for Europe and
America.
“Kogi will be the Holland of
Nigeria where every other state in Nigeria will come and buy milk and other
dairy products.
“They will also buy meat, hides
and skin, bones, horns and even cow faeces for manure, which will translate
into cash for our people.
“If you have a parcel of land
that you are not using, what will happen is that the pastoralists will come and
you rent it to them for money.
“Our youths and women will learn
how to breed and keep these cows as well.
“And what will happen is that we
shall have hire cross breed cows that will produce more milk and high quality
meats where other states can come and buy.
“They said I am friend to Fulani
herdsmen and hate farmers, but they are all falsehood on the pages of
newspapers and television.
“We are telling the people that
we are tolerant in Kogi, we love our neighbours and seizing and maximising the
best of every opportunity.
“Very soon we will tell our
Fulani brothers not to take their cows across border to sell again.
“We will ask them to drop their
cows in Kogi, and we will rent your land to them to stay.
“A land where people can come and
buy, pay tax to government and they will settle the land owners.
“This is the way we are going to
go; in the next six months we shall begin to see the economy of Kogi
transforming very rapidly.
“The Federal Government and
international agencies are bringing money, grants to Kogi to support livestock
production, including keeping these cows in form of ranches in one particular
area with facilities called ‘cattle colonies.
“Why can’t we tolerate our Fulani
bothers and sisters who have lived with us for a very long time? And you want
them to leave now to go where?
“We have to be tolerant, we have
to tolerate one another, it is out of tolerance that we gathered here today.
“Hold on to your land, we will
teach you how to use it judiciously to make huge money in the state; our land
is our oil wells that can never dry”.
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