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As part of evidence that Nigeria has improved
drastically in animal feeds and livestock production, ALLTECH Global
Feed Ranking Report for 2015 has rated Nigeria’s animal feed sector as
number 40th in the world; moving 11 steps forward from its previous
ranking of number 51 out of 130 leading animal feeds countries in the
world.
Nigeria is estimated to have produced 3.8 million metric tons (MT) of animal feeds in 2014. Nigeria, according to the Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Institute of Animal Science, Dr. Oyedele Oyediji, has significantly improved in the livestock sector between 2014 and 2015; particularly in the area of aquaculture production.
Oyediji disclosed this yesterday in Abuja during a chat with newsmen. He said in the poultry meat sector, the Nigeria Custom Service has succeeded in curtailing smuggled frozen poultry meat into the country through land borders.
He said Nigeria is now rated as one of the largest emerging animals feeds producers in the world with a better opportunity to penetrate the international animal feeds export market.
“Nigerian animal feed production estimates are obtained from statistics computed by the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), and are made available to local and international organizations for planning and business purposes. Nigeria, through the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science, is a member of the FAO/IFIF International Feed Regulators Meeting (IFRM),” he said.
He further revealed that NIAS statistics in 2015 show that Nigeria hit 5.3 million MT of animal feeds as it produced 3.2 MMT of egg; 1.1MMT of chicken meat, 647,750MMT of aquaculture, 265,000MMT of Pork, 53,000MMT of milk and 41,250MMT of beef among others.
“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, 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,” he said.
Nigeria is estimated to have produced 3.8 million metric tons (MT) of animal feeds in 2014. Nigeria, according to the Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Institute of Animal Science, Dr. Oyedele Oyediji, has significantly improved in the livestock sector between 2014 and 2015; particularly in the area of aquaculture production.
Oyediji disclosed this yesterday in Abuja during a chat with newsmen. He said in the poultry meat sector, the Nigeria Custom Service has succeeded in curtailing smuggled frozen poultry meat into the country through land borders.
He said Nigeria is now rated as one of the largest emerging animals feeds producers in the world with a better opportunity to penetrate the international animal feeds export market.
“Nigerian animal feed production estimates are obtained from statistics computed by the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), and are made available to local and international organizations for planning and business purposes. Nigeria, through the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science, is a member of the FAO/IFIF International Feed Regulators Meeting (IFRM),” he said.
He further revealed that NIAS statistics in 2015 show that Nigeria hit 5.3 million MT of animal feeds as it produced 3.2 MMT of egg; 1.1MMT of chicken meat, 647,750MMT of aquaculture, 265,000MMT of Pork, 53,000MMT of milk and 41,250MMT of beef among others.
“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, 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,” he said.
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