PAN urges FG to fund poultry sector, tackle kidnapping of farmers

The Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, has urged the Federal Government to summation concern successful the poultry sector, supply farmers with affordable semipermanent financing and tackle insecurity threatening farms crossed the country.

The Chairman of PAN, Southwest Zone, Rev. Oluleye Olugbeja, made the telephone astatine the 3-day Nigeria Poultry Show 2026 held astatine the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, OOPL, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

Speaking astatine the event, which attracted implicit 100 vendors and exhibitors from Nigeria, China, India, Belgium and Germany, Olugbeja said immoderate farmers had abandoned their farms owed to kidnapping, informing that insecurity was discouraging radical from farming astatine a clip Nigeria needs to summation nutrient production.

He besides urged the authorities to consult poultry farmers earlier formulating policies affecting the sector, saying immoderate policies were inimical to their operations.

"When they are making oregon fashioning retired their livestock policies oregon poultry policies, they should consult us. There are immoderate of the poultry policies that are inimical to our operations. We are encouraging authorities to delight transportation america along," helium said.

On nutrient security, Olugbeja, who doubles arsenic the PAN National Vice President, Southwest, said authorities indispensable dainty nutrient arsenic nationalist security, asserting that a state cannot warrant sustainable bid and stableness if it is incapable to adequately provender its po...