Nigeria animal feed production hits 5.3m metric tons

 animal feed production

The Nigeria Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), said the country’s animal feed production has increased from 3.8 million metric tons to 5.3 million metric tons.


To this end, it was recorded that Nigeria moved from number 51 to 40 in animal feed production in the world.

This was disclosed by the Registrar of the NAIS, Dr Oyedele Oyediji in a statement he issued and made available to the Nigerian Tribune.

According to him, the ALLTECH Global ranking in 2015 ranked Nigeria’s animal feed sector number 40 which according to him was a significant progress from its previous number 51 out of 130 on feed productions in the world.

“The ALLTECH Global Feed ranking 2015 recently published, has ranked Nigeria’s animal feed sector as number 40 in the world, a significant progress from its previous ranking of number 51 out of 130 leading animal feed Countries in the world.

“There was a significant rise in the livestock sector in 2014 and 2015, particularly in aquaculture production, and also in the poultry meat sector as the Nigeria Custom Services are succeeding in curtailing smuggled frozen poultry meat into Nigeria through land borders”, he noted.

Oyediji further explained that as demand for local poultry products rose, there was a corresponding demand for more animal feeds.

“Nigeria was estimated to produce 3.8million metric tons of animal feeds in 2014 (ALLTECH 2015) which shot Nigeria from number 51 to number 40 out of 130 leading Countries in the world,” he said.

He explained that in 2015, NIAS statistics revealed that Nigeria hit 5.3 million metric tons of animal feeds with egg production at 3,180,000 MT, chicken meat for 1,078,000 MT.

Others include, Aquaculture production at 647,750, pork rose to 265,000, milk production increased to 53,000, beef production appreciated to 41,250, while Pet foods /Micro livestock rose to 35,000 everything totaling 5,300,000.

He revealed that at the coming 5th Global Food and Feed Congress to be held in Antalya, Republic of Turkey in April 2016, Nigeria will be presenting a report of the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) Global Animal Nutrition Train-The trainer program that was sponsored by IFIF in Lagos in 2015.

“Technical capacity was built for the Nigerian Feed Industry in 2015 by the International Feed Industry Federation on the implementation of the FAO/Codex code of practice on good Animal Feeding.

“Nigeria is now rated as one of the world’s largest emerging animal feeds producers in the world with a better opportunity to penetrate the International animal feeds export market”, he added.