By Nneka Nwogwugwu
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has said it has spent over N360, 500.000m as intervention fund on five different vaccines for livestock.
The vaccines were distributed to all states of the federation to checkmate spread of animals’ trans-boundaries disease between 2020 and 2021 years.
According to a spending procurement finance a total of N360, 500.00 had been spent for the procurement of five different types of vaccines between 2020 and 2021 in the following budgeted order.
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While in the year 2021, CBPP had N80 million, PPR- N180, 000.000, and NCD had a budget of thirty thousand million naira, and this was aside the distribution cost displayed below.
Recently, in a press release made available to journalists, the ministry has said a total of over 1.8 million vaccines had been distributed to Edo and other states of the South-South free of charge to fight against trans-boundary animal diseases in 2022.
According to FMARD ‘‘ Nigeria’s livestock population is put at 22,378,374 Cattle; 53,061,143 Sheep; 99,879,799 Goats; 9,299,563 Pigs and over 425,790,456 Poultry spread across six geopolitical Zones of the country, kept by majority of Nigerians especially in rural and semi-rural settings.
The trans-boundary diseases that needed to be prevented through these vaccinations according to the statement include, Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP), Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR), Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Newcastle Disease (ND).
