The Federal Ministry of Agriculture in Abuja has revealed that they are working on a comprehensive livestock information system that will require all cattle in the country to carry electronic chips while satellite imagery and remote sensing technology are deployed to track their movements.
Premium Times reports that the Minister of Agriculture, Akinwunmi Adesina, disclosed this on Monday, 23 June, 2014, in Kaduna, at the international conference on security and development challenges of pastoralists in West Africa, where he also said that the latest move would ease the perennial conflicts between herdsmen and farmers across the country.
The minister also urged governments in Nigeria to establish modern ranches and grazing buffer zones across border areas of countries, to support cross-border pastoralism.
Mr. Akinwumi stated that just like buffer dams help to prevent flooding downstream, grazing buffers zones will help alleviate the need for massive movement of live stock further south in to Nigeria.
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