Adamawa Inaugurates Ranch

Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has inaugurated a ranch project of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) in the state.

The ranch located at Gongoshi Grazing Reserve in Mayo Belwa local government is to provide alternative to herders to settle in one place.

It measures 30 hectares of land has 32 participating households with 40 participating cattle, with each household providing one animal and one trainee.

He said the NLTP would transform the livestock sector to address the persistent farmer-herder clashes and fix agriculture in general such as fisheries, forestry, water and soil management.

He said the administration had evolved other programmes to engender livestock production system such as Adamawa Agribusiness Support Programme, livestock vaccination campaign against trans boundary diseases among others.

The governor expressed appreciation to the NLTP and SLTO for their efforts in driving the process leading to the realisation of the project and hoped that it would be reflected in other parts of the state.

The Coordinator of State Livestock Transformation Office (SLTO), Professor Ambrose Voh, said the NLATP is a 10 year federal government project aimed at transforming the animal husbandry system from normadism to modern ranching.

Professor Voh commended Governor Umaru Fintiri for his commitment to funding the NLTP in the last five years, adding that the pilot project would grow pasture for feeding the animals and provision of water.

Village Head of Dikon, Alhaji Ardo Bamanga, thanked Governor Fintiri for his effort to provide social amenities to the area and pledged that nomads would take full ownership of the pilot project.