• Home
  • News
    • African News
    • Nigerian
    • World
    • News UK
    • Politics
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Health
Nigerian Watch Newspaper
Nigerian Watch Newspaper
 
 
 
  • Home
  • News
    • African News
    • Nigerian
    • World
    • News UK
    • Politics
  • Sports
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Health
Home
Business

With the consensus that ranching is the way forward I would like to see Nigeria set herself the goal of becoming a top 10 milk producer by 2030

February 17th, 2021 African News, Business, News, Nigerian, Politics, World comments

With the consensus that ranching is the way forward I would like to see Nigeria set herself the goal of becoming a top 10 milk producer by 2030

Ayo Akinfe

We are shamelessly a net importer of milk at the moment. In 2019, Nigeria only produced a paltry 523,599 tonnes of milk domestically.

We consume about 1.3bn tonnes of milk annually, so spend between $1.2bn and $1.5bn annually to bridge the gap between production and consumption. Once we have these mega ranches in place, we must set them steep milk production targets.

Once more, we simply refuse to be productive. However, let us set ourselves the goal of joining these countries:

(1) US – 91.3bn tonnes
(2) India – 60.6bn tonnes
(3) China – 35.7bn tonnes
(4) Brazil – 34.3bn tonnes
(5) Germany – 31.1bn tonnes
(6) Russia – 30.3bn tonnes
(7) France – 23.7bn tonnes
(8) New Zealand – 18.9bn tonnes
(9) Turkey – 16.7bn tonnes
(10) UK – 13.9bn tonnes

Personally, I would build one mega ranch each in the six largest states of Nigeria and get a dairy company to open a nearby milk processing plant. If you have one such plant in Niger, Borno, Taraba, Yobe, Kaduna and Bauchi states, with each producing say 200m tonnes of milk a year, we are nearly there.

  • Tags
  • Ayo Akinfe
  • Bauchi
  • Borno
  • Dairy plant
  • Fulani herdsmen
  • Kaduna
  • milk
  • Niger
  • Taraba
  • Yobe
Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn WhatsApp
Next article Senior Hisbah commander arrested in Kano State after being caught in hotel with married woman
Previous article Seven northwest governors meet with security chiefs and ask for more time to establish ranches

Related Posts

CBN and PricewaterhouseCoopers believe diaspora remittances will hit almost $35bn by 2023 African News

CBN and PricewaterhouseCoopers believe diaspora remittances will hit almost $35bn by 2023

Education ministry begins moving pupils from northeast boarding schools to Abuja for safety News

Education ministry begins moving pupils from northeast boarding schools to Abuja for safety

The Nigerian Coronavirus Declaration African News

The Nigerian Coronavirus Declaration

Facebook Comments

 

Follow Us on Facebook


Follow us on Twitter


Follow nigerianwatch on TwitterTweet

  • About us
  • Legal agreement
  • Privacy policy
  • Contact us
  • Back to top
© 2012 - Nigerian Watch. All rights reserved.
Website by Mouldme.com