Poultry farmers under the Godwin Obaseki-led administration’s agripreneur programme in Edo State have continued to count their gains, as poultry processors in the state have purchased a total of 125,000 birds from 11 farm clusters in the state’s broiler breeding scheme.
The new figures are an improvement from the earlier reports that the off-takers bought off 60,000 birds from the beneficiaries of the scheme, which is targeted at improving protein production in the state to fight malnutrition and other health-related challenges.
The new figures were polled from the activities of broiler breeders in Benin metropolis, where the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agriculture Lending (NIRSAL), provided support in de-risking investment in farms operated in Oredo, Ikpoba Oka and Egor local government areas (LGAs).
According to Crusoe Osagie, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, “We have recorded impressive success with the broiler breeding programme as we did with the rice production.”
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