By Bisola Adeyemo
Kano State government has announced plans to establish 200 milk collection centres.
It said that the centres will help to add at least, 50,000 litres to Nigeria’s daily dairy requirement.
This was contained in a statement issued by Communication Specialist, State Agro Pastoral Development Project (KSADP), Mr Ameen Yassar, and made available to newsmen in Kano.
He quoted KSADP Project Coordinator, Alhaji Ibrahim Garba-Muhammad, as making the disclosure during a meeting with livestock stakeholders in Kano.
According to Garba-Muhammad, NAN reports that each of the milk collection centres will provide, at least, 250 litres of milk per day, adding that the quantity will further increase significantly when the proposed artificial insemination scheme commences.
“This will be reinforced by our intended intervention in small and large scale fodder production schemes, which will provide more pasture for the cattle, leading to increased dairy production,” he said.
The project coordinator said that the project was designed to assist in improving nutrition through consumption of milk and curtail huge economic losses, occasioned by milk spoilage.
The project coordinator disclosed that the Chairman, Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in the state, Alhaji Hussain Umar, had donated his farm at ‘Yan Rutu, Dawakin-Tofa Local Government Area, free-of-charge to be made one of the milk collection centres.
Garba-Muhammad pointed out that during the meeting, about 287 locations across the 44 local government areas were identified for the proposed milk collection centres.
