Africa: ITC Increases Livestock Productivity in West Africa, Says Agric Minister

8 September 2014

Agriculture minister Solomon Owens has hailed the International Trypanotolerance Centre (ITC) for its contribution to increasing livestock productivity in the sub-region.

The minister, in his keynote address at an ITC Business Plan Validation workshop on Thursday at the Kairaba Beach Hotel, said: "ITC has contributed immensely towards its mission to increase livestock productivity and utilization in the West African region through the optimal and sustainable exploitation of genetic resistance traits of indigenous breeds of livestock for the welfare of human populations for about three decades now."

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