‘Effective collaboration critical to poultry feeds economy’

TO address the high cost of poultry feeds, the Ogun State government has charged poultry farmers to forge a strong alliance within to check the instability in the price of poultry feeds in the country.

The Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mrs Modupe Mujota , explained that there is strength in numbers, urging the poultr y farmers to collaborate more effectively in a bid to address other numerous challenges confronting the nation’s poultry industry.

The commissioner during the 2017 world egg day organised by the Poultr y Association of Nigeria (PAN) Ogun State chapter , added that the association can also use its strength to collectively store poultry feeds while putting in place a management structure to sell at competitive prices to poultry farmers.

Mujota also stressed that credible collaboration would also avail poultry farmers opportunities to get easy access to finance at bankable interest rate if they work effectively as a group.

She said forging alliances within the association would go a long way to address majority of the challenges hindering the growth of the poultry industry.

She implored Nigerian women to be creative using eggs in more ways than one when cooking, saying that this would help to increase the per capita consumption of eggs in Nigeria.

Earlier, the Chairperson, PAN, Ogun State Chapter, Mrs. Blessing Alawode, expressed concerns over the low per capita consumption of eggs in the country, saying that currently Nigeria’s per capita consumption is a far cry from what is obtainable globally.