A ban would be placed on the importation of fish and milk soon, the Federal Government has said.
This was revealed by the Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Sabo Nanono, at the official commissioning of the Agribusiness incubation center (AIC) at Federal University Dutse, in Jigawa State, on Tuesday.
According to him, the country is blessed with numerous resources and opportunities, adding that everything being imported into Nigeria, is already being produced locally.
” We will look critically into the importation of any food into the country because we all have it, Nigeria is a country where we eat what we produce and produce what we eat” he stated.
Nanono, stated that, the only problem facing Nigeria right now is how to get milk from cows in commercial quantity, owing to the fact that there are about 25 million cows in the country.
To this effect, he noted that the Federal Government has commenced small scale milk processing centers to mitigate the importation of milk into the country.
“We have over seven of these centers and we are going to do more in the country, we also opened one in Dawakin- Kudu last year and the center alone is galvanizing over 12 thousand Fulani cattle rearers in the area” Nanono noted.
“If we take fish, there are so many fish infrastructures also in this country abandoned and not utilized”
However, the minister, stressed that most of them are already being revived, while working on creating the new ones.
