The Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support (L-PRES) World Bank project has donated 450,000 doses of anthrax vaccines to the Kaduna State Ministry of Agriculture to enable the free vaccination of livestock against the disease and other transboundary animal diseases.
The state coordinator of L-PRES, Dr Salisu Shittu Hashim, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, commended the Kaduna State Government for providing counterpart funding for the project.
Hashim said L-PRES has conducted training and capacity-building for over 2,000 livestock farmers on disease identification, prevention, and control.
Hashim also expressed gratitude to the governor for flagging off the distribution of equipment such as fodder choppers, residue crushers, and tricycles to sedentary pastoralist communities and clusters that the project has profiled.
The state coordinator highlighted that L-PRES has upgraded the four grazing reserves in Kaduna State by providing solar-powered boreholes in each of them, reserving land, and supplying seeds for planting animal feed.
He emphasized that providing water points will not only minimize farmer-herder conflicts but also increase the quantity and quality of milk production in cattle.
The statement recalled that the Kaduna office of L-PRES has provided a baling machine, a mower, and other supporting equipment to the National Livestock Transformation Programme (NLTP) at the Laduga Grazing Reserve.
Hashim, added that L-PRES has improved veterinary facilities in Kaduna State and trained veterinarians and other livestock service providers on disease surveillance.
