Gideon said, as a matter of urgency, government should resuscitate the school feeding programme, adding that eggs and chicken meat form the major component of the programme.
“We, also want to use this medium to appeal to the international grants and donor agencies like IFAD, NG-Cares, World Bank, Private Financial Advisory Network to come to the aid of poultry farmers in Nigeria and particularly, the South-West zone,” he said. “We want CBN and the Federal Government to help in defraying part of the loan and in some cases outright cancellation of the loan.
According to him, the situation is so bad that a farmer has about a hundred thousand crates of eggs unsold in the farm now, with the market value of over N200 million,” Gideon said.
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