The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced plans to empower women and youth through poultry agriculture.
Mohammed Abubakar, minister of agriculture and rural development confirmed the report and said the new plans will to strengthen and solidify its wobbling agricultural sector in 2022 through enhanced provision of agricultural incentives and maintenance of existing agricultural institutions across the six geopolitical zones of the country.
Food security
The measure is to give more impetus for the realization of food security and intercontinental food production, adding that the federal government has also taken a resolution to empower women and youths through poultry agriculture in order to elevate self-economic reliance among them.
Iwuchukwu Onyema, a director in the Imo State Ministry of Agriculture, emphasised the importance of the two facilities, saying that rubber is an essential raw material that is used in the creation of more than 40,000 products, including medical devices, surgical gloves, aircraft and car tyres, as well as pacifiers, clothes and toys, but poultry farming, which contributes to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), increases domestic income.
The minister explained that a recently released economic study indicated that 1.6 million jobs emanate from poultry farming in the USA, just as rubber, which is a natural product produced from a tree called Hevea Brasiliensis is useful in a number of ways in society.
“The natural rubber produced from plants is classified as a polymer, which is a chemical compound with large molecules made of many smaller molecules of the same kind,” he said.
