Tunde Amole, the country director of International Livestock Research Institute, believes Nigeria could achieve food security if it has all the data of who is doing what in the agricultural value chain and if the food safety bill which has been on the floor of theIn this interview with Abdulkareem Mojeed, he speaks on the critical strategies and guidelines Nigeria can employ to reduce the negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the different agricultural value chains with major emphasis...
Even feeds are made from either crop residue, grains- soybean, maize among others. We’re approaching the planting season, farmers would be in the preparation to plant their food and while we look at what human beings would eat, these same crops are what the livestocks depend on. So it is going to greatly affect the feed value chain.
Tunde Amole: You would have noticed that the experts told us that Covid-19 was sourced from the wet wild market in China. So there is this wide market of animals, not from livestock. Covid-19 did not come from livestocks, rather if we have a good livestock system and we’re eating healthily we would be well immuned. However, that is not where I’m going.
We need good data of what is going on, we cannot depend on the research being done in the US to now come and be applying it here, it wont work. Sometimes they say you don’t eat meat because it is causing this, the people telling us have done research about their own life and it is not affecting us here. How many grams of meat do we eat per day, here in Nigeria. The issue is that we don’t even have our own local research to tackle our own local problems.
Another thing which we’ve been able to do so far is the process of converting cassava peels into livestock feed. We know that people are using cassava to feed their animals, but Cassava is a staple food in Nigeria, we have a lot of human food products from cassava- garri, cassava flour, fufu etc. So we don’t want competition to continue between humans and livestocks. But there is a portion of cassava that we’ve neglected over years which is the peels.
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Which livestock industry?