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Too much wastage in Nigeria, Buhari laments
President Muhammadu Buhari has decried the culture of waste foisted on the country, due to lack of means of preservation of agricultural products.
The president lamented the situation in which cattle farmers throw away milk from their animals, because there is no means of preserving and processing the product.
He made the observation while receiving the Global Chief Executive Officer of Friesland Campina, The Netherlands, Mr Roelf Joosten, at State House, Abuja, Tuesday,
“We have failed to develop our assets on a permanent basis. This, we are determined to work on,” the President promised.
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He urged Friesland Campina, in its collaboration with Nigeria, to educate cattle farmers that “quality matters more than quantity,” and help them organize into cooperatives for better business.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, who was also at the event, promised that herdsmen would soon be organized into ranches in the country, with special grasses and water, which will give better yield, and make the animals healthier.
He also disclosed that special flasks, which can preserve raw milk for up to six hours, would soon be made available, enabling cattle farmers to get the product to dairies in good quality.
Mr Joosten disclosed that Friesland Campina is a cooperative owned by 19,000 farmers, and is 145 years old. It began business in Nigeria in 1973 as Friesland Campina WAMCO Nigeria.
Also on the delegation of the Global CEO was the Managing Director of Friesland Campina WAMCO, Mr Rahul Colaco.
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