As part of the measures to halt clashes between herders and farmers, the Federal Government has released N1bn seed grant to Nasarawa, Plateau, Adamawa and Kaduna states for the development of pilot ranches in their states.
According to reports, the fund was released after about 22 state governors indicated interest in developing ranches in their states.
On the last count, no fewer than 22 states had written to the Federal Government to indicate interest in the National Livestock Transformation Programme.
Recall that the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Agriculture, Andrew Kwasari, who also coordinates the NLTP, had earlier said that the Federal Government would start disbursing funds for model ranches.
According to him, states whose governors had written the Federal Government include Kaduna, Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Plateau, Zamfara, Kano, Ondo, Katsina, Bauchi, Yobe, Borno, Gombe, Nasarawa, Niger, Sokoto, Ekiti, Kogi, Ebonyi and Kwara.
Following incessant clashes between farmers and herders, the Federal Government in 2018 came up with various ranching models, including Ruga and the NLTP, to settle nomadic herdsmen, who are mostly Fulani.
