As part of it's efforts at encouraging ranching, the United States (US) Mission in Nigeria, on Monday, shared photos of its dairy farm at a ranch in Ikun, Ekiti State.
The mission took to it's Twitter account, and uploaded pictures of several cows breeding with the caption: “U.S. Dairy Milk Cows in Ekiti State!”.
The mission added that the dairy farm located in Ikun, a collaborative project of the US Consulate in Lagos targets to reach 10,000 liters of milk daily. The cows are imported from the US, the tweet indicated.
The Ikun dairy farm sits on over 250 hectares, has hundreds of cows that graze on it and most are impregnated through artificial insemination.
Such a farm is what many Nigerians, including Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, envisage to solve the problem of incessant farmers - herders clash.
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GUEST_0BoVLEXqv
02-17 14:21:09THERE IS NOTHING LIKE FARMERS - HERDSMEN CLASH IN NIGERIA. WHAT WE HAVE IS PURE FULANI INVASION OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES FOR POLITICAL DOMINATION. EVEN IF YOU CREATE ONE MILLION RANCHES, BUHARI AND HIS CRIMINAL GANGS WILL DEVICE NEW REASONS TO PEPETRATE THEIR OCCUPATION.
DeriOrbuka_01
02-15 22:13:34create one million such farms for animals husbandry it would not work for the Fulani Herdsmen.. These people are a economic migrants from the Ecowas region...amongst other parts of Africa... theirs is to occupy Nigeria for political reasons... Is the fight I. southern Kaduna about breeding cows....what about Plateau and Benue... Borno state.nko...Adamawa and Nasarawa..I begi
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02-15 23:41:23Confusion na quench! So now, USA mission in Nigeria owns two hundred and fifty acres of land outside diplomatic accommodation? Vienna Convention!