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By Collins Akpan As Federal Government plans to employ 774,000 artisans and unskilled workers across the 774 Local Government Areas of Nigeria for three months, about five million poultry jobs are on the line. In the last seven months, about two million poultry jobs have reportedly been lost due to acute scarcity of maize and
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By Collins Akpan As Federal Government plans to employ 774,000 artisans and unskilled workers across the 774 Local Government Areas of Nigeria for three months, about five million poultry jobs are on the line. In the last seven months, about two million poultry jobs have reportedly been lost due to acute scarcity of maize and
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By Esther Onyegbula As part of measures to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on farmers, Lagos State government has donated 15 trailers of 50kg bags of maize to Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, Lagos chapter. The donation was distributed through the Lagos State Agriculture Development Authority in Oko-Oba, Agege. Speaking at the presentation,
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Appeals to govt to off-take already produced eggs By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Poultry farmers under the auspices of the Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, Tuesday, want to be exempted from restriction of movement declared by the government as part of lockdown measures to curtail the spread of Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic in the country. This
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A Poultry expert, Mr Joel Oduware, has called for precautionary approach against the trigger and spread of Bird Flu disease closely linked to the harmattan season. Oduware, an expert in poultry farming made this call in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos. The experts said the disease was seasonal
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Poultry farmers under the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration’s agripreneur programme 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
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The Management of the University of Ilorin says it is making efforts to key into the Federal Government’s poultry revival programme. Prof. Mikhail Buhari, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Management Services, Unilorin made this disclosure on Monday in Ilorin. He explained that the University is at an advanced stage of discussion with a partner bank and the Central
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The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) says it has begun practical training of the 50 youth recently inducted into its poultry farm scheme in Delta. The State Coordinator of the agency, Mr. Tony Olu, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Asaba. Olu said that the practice
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United States poultry exports to China are projected to exceed 1 billion dollars annually as a result of Beijing’s decision to lift a ban on poultry imports from the U.S., the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said. The U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a statement on Thursday that the U.S. welcomed China’s decision to
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The closure of Nigeria’s land borders has opened a vista of opportunities for poultry farmers, the Coordinator of the 2019 Nigeria Poultry Farmers’ Exhibition, Mr Dele Toyin, said on Sunday. Toyin told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the closure had given local poultry farmers access to markets. He, however, noted that
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