Gboyega Akinsanmi
The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) has agreed that open grazing is unsustainable and initiated measures to end it, Plateau State Governor, Senator Simon Lalong has revealed.
Lalong, Chairman of the forum, has therefore asked the federal government to release funds for the implementation of the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP).
Lalong made this disclosure yesterday during the seventh Annual Lecture of Sir Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation in Kaduna.
He stated that his northern colleagues had agreed to adopt ranching.
The Forum of Southern Governors had banned open grazing in all the 17 southern states. They recommended that the federal government should support willing states to develop alternative and modern livestock management systems.
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The issue of Rural Grazing Areas (RUGA) proposed by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to address the herders/farmers crisis in the country has been on the front burner. While some states rejected the initiative, others have embraced it and begun implementation.
In his article titled, ‘The virtues of open grazing in Nigeria’, Dr Junaidu Maina, a former director at the Federal Livestock Department, described as needless, the controversy around open grazing.
“Self-styled experts are attempting to stampede governments to ban open grazing by advancing fictitious arguments such as no land for roaming cattle, data on land use shows otherwise or that ranching is the global best practice for keeping cattle, while in Sub-Saharan Africa, ranches exist only in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa and falsely claiming that ranches have replaced pastoralism in Kenya and Ethiopia, while the Maasai and the Oromos respectively, still practice pastoralism in these countrie
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