SEDC to boost South-East economy through development of poultry industry

The South East Development Commission, SEDC, has unveiled plans to prioritise the improvement of the poultry manufacture successful the South-East arsenic a means of boosting economical maturation successful the region.

The program was unveiled astatine the Eastern International Poultry Summit 2026, organised by the Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, South-East zone, on Tuesday. SEDC Executive Director, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Rural Development, SEDC, Dr. Cliff Ogbede, successful a keynote code astatine the acme with the theme, ‘From Farm to Market: Scaling Nigeria’s Poultry Trade and Investment’, said the determination would replicate the successes recorded by the Dr Michael Okpara-led defunct Eastern Region government, which harnessed cultivation resources to execute economical maturation successful the region.

Ogbede, who represented the Managing Director of SEDC, Mark Okoye Jr., noted that the improvement of the poultry manufacture successful the South-East would not lone heighten nutrition, but besides catalyse economical maturation and make thousands of jobs successful the region.

According to him, the SEDC’s eventual nonsubjective is for the South-East to go the highest shaper of poultry products successful the country.

Ogbede lamented the reliance of the South-East different regions of the state for livestock and food,...