The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has stated that apart from the tremendous benefits of rapidly growing the livestock sector, creating thousands of jobs and raising national economic output, the establishment and effective management of grazing reserves will reduce the frequent cattle herders-crop farmers and other forms of communal clashes in the country.
The Minister made the assertion on weekend, while addressing the inter-ministerial technical committee tasked with working out modalities for mapping and resuscitating 415 existing grazing reserves and stock routes spread across the country.The Ministers of Environment, Works, Interior, Water Resources, Science and Technology as well asNational Planning are members of the inter-ministerial/government committee headed by the Minister, with commissioners of agriculture of all 19 States of North-Central, North-East and North-West geo-Political Zones as well as some adjoining States.
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