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Northern Governors call for implementation of National Livestock Transformation Plan

By Omotayo Edubi

The Northern Governors Forum has called for the speedy implementation of the National Livestock Transformation Plan(NLPT).

They also called for the immediate implementation of the State Level Project Socialisation on Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES), in the region .

The governors made the call at a meeting of the forum’s committee on Agriculture on Wednesday in Abuja.

Briefing newsmen at the end of the meeting , the Chairman of the forum, Gov Simon Lalong of Plateau said that the speedy implementation of the programmes would help the region handle some of the challenges in its agriculture sector .

The NLPT is a federal government project being implemented in some states to transform the livestock industry and also address crisis of farmers and herders , while the L-PRES programe is targeted to address low investment in the livestock subsector .

“Agriculture is our hope in the north and for a while we saw alot of delay in implementation of some of these programmes , and so we had to call a meeting especially with the introduction of the new outfit L-PRES

“We(northern governors) all agreed for all the northern states to key in to the L-PRES and also part of the NLPT, which is already being implemented,” he said .

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