The governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, has inaugurated a committee saddled with the responsibility to enforce the anti-open rearing and grazing of livestock law and provide for the establishment of ranches and livestock administration, regulation and control.
Akwa Ibom, Benue, Ekiti, Rivers, Bayelsa, Oyo, Ekiti, Abia, Lagos and Enugu States have enacted anti-open grazing legislations in a bid to check encroachment of farmland by cattle. While congratulating members of the committee, the representative of the Akwa Ibom governor, Mr Ekuwem, charged members of the implementation committee to be committed, fair and firm in the discharge of their duties, adding that their appointment was a call to service.
The exercise which is organised by the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Agriculture was flagged off Thursday by the agriculture commissioner, Glory Edet at the Green HouseThe commissioner said the state government is taking the step to help farmers to acquire skills for an increased vegetable productivity in the state.