By Danzumi Ishaku Jalingo.
The Taraba State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Recourses says it has developed a work-plan to domesticate the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) policy in the state.
In an interview with newsmen in Jalingo on Wednesday, Bujuje Danjuma, the Permanent Secretary, said that the state would implement the plan in consideration of its peculiarities.
The permanent secretary said that both the Technical and the Project Steering Committees had been inaugurated and had been given guidelines for the implementation of the plan.
Danjuma said that the Federal government was to take the largest funding responsibility of the programme, adding that the state was to contribute 20 per cent, while the Federal government contributes 80 per cent.
He explained that the committees inaugurated had since swung into action to expedite the process of the implementation of the plan.
According to him, the policy when implemented will end the perennial clashes between crop farmers and livestock farmers in the state.
“Taraba has welcomed the policy in its entirety and is ready to implement all the contents of the plan in line with its peculiarities,’’ Danjuma said.
The PS said that the state would develop one ranch in each of the three senatorial zones in the state as part of its demonstration programme.
Daybreak recalls that the Federal government had launched the NLTP selecting seven states for its pilot Programme.
Its goal is to implement the livestock management policy that can be most acceptable by the people and can be sustainable.
Taraba is one of the pilot states and livestock officers and project management officers have been selected to be trained on the implementation of the NLTP in the state.
