Showing posts with label frozen poultry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frozen poultry. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Local farmers can tap from N800bn poultry industry

POULTRY farming has become one of the biggest components of Nigeria’s agriculture with abundant social and economic poten­tials, which contributes 25 per cent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Poultry farming, which consists the rearing of tur­keys, chickens, quails, ducks, pigeons, peacocks, guinea fowls, cows, goats, snails, and sheep now worth over N800 billion in Nigeria, al­though the sector is being projected to reach N1 tril­lion before the end of 2016.