The Plateau State governor, Mr Simon Lalong on Friday met with President Muhammadu Buhari over the implementation of National Livestock Transformation Plan.
The Governor expressed optimism that the implementation of the project would help in curbing herders /farmers crisis in the state and other parts of the country.
The programme which is headed by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was originally designed to run from 2019 to 2028,
According to the governor, “I am a member of the livestock committee under the vice president, Governor Lalong said.
“I represent the north-central on that committee. You will recall that this issue came up before and that was the purpose of setting up that committee and we made far-reaching recommendations and funds were to be made available for pilot states and Plateau is a pilot state. About nine states were pilot states.
“The issue was to move away from the old ways of rearing cows and to find more modern ways of doing it.
“In some places they will do it that way but in a confined environment which was all agreed and that is part of what I was raising, to remind Mr President to hasten the implementation of the National Livestock Production.”