6. Nigeria: F.G Promises to end waste of dairy products.
While receiving the Global Chief Executive Officer of Friesland Campina, of the Netherlands, Mr. Roelf Joosten, in the state House Yesterday, President Muhammadu Buhari,
has decried the culture of waste foisted on the country due to lack of means of preservation of agricultural product, especially in diary business, he lamented the situation in which cattle farmer throw away milk from their animals due to inadequate- preservation and processing methods, adding the ‘’we have failed to develop our assets on a permanent basis. This, we are determined to work on’’Speaking on this, The Minister of Agriculture Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, has promised herdsmen would soon be organized into ranches in the country with special grasses and water to enable better animal yield, and also disclosed that special flask, which can preserve raw milk for up to six hours, would soon made available, enabling cattle farmers to get the product of diaries in good qualities.
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