Nigeria Livestock Roadmap for Productivity Improvement and Resilience 2020 - 2026.

This Nigeria Livestock Road Map is a document aiming to address challenges in the livestock sub-sector and ensure recovery and growth post-COVID-19, as outlined in the National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Plan (NATIP). This 4-year strategy focuses on knowledge and technology-driven agriculture to ensure sustainable national food security and nutrition, diversification, job creation, and resilience. The Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support (L-PRES) project, running from 2020-2026, seeks to improve productivity, resilience, and commercialisation capacities in selected livestock value chains, enhancing the country's crisis response capability. It also aims to transform subsistence livestock production into dynamic, market-oriented systems through increased investments, targeting a 5-6% annual growth to align with national economic development plans. This includes improving breeds, production capacities, and resource availability, supporting animal health management, and enhancing input supply, service delivery, value addition, market infrastructure, and competitiveness. The overall strategy integrates NATIP and the Livestock Transformation Plan to achieve comprehensive sector growth and resilience.
The Roadmap outlines interventions in the following livestock sub-sectors indicating the objectives to achieve the goal (i) strengthening national institutions for improved service delivery to support improvement in the performance and service delivery of institutions; (ii) livestock extension and business support service aiming to (a) increase extension service delivery with a strong background on livestock information dissemination, (b) increase access to financial services and trade, (c) link producers to market and products regulators, (d) increase clusters and trust groups formation and transformation into Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), (e) access incentive to grow for both local and export markets, (f) support private sector investment in the trading, processing, and transportation sectors; (iii) animal genetic resources development to increase the productivity of the indigenous livestock and poultry breeds and commercialise its production; (iv) animal feeds supply, divided into ruminant and poultry: (a) the objectives for ruminant animal feeds are to adopt fodder banks and silage, grow high-yield pasture plants with irrigation for year-round production, encourage commercial pasture production through private investment and PPP arrangements, and build crop farmers' capacity to utilise and sell crop residues, (b) the objectives for poultry feeds are to promote alternative feed resources, encourage on-farm and cooperative milling, support private investment in commercial feed production, boost in-country production of feed additives, strengthen regulatory quality assurance, incentivise crop farmers to produce for the livestock feed industry, and utilise alternative resources like agro-industrial by-products; (v) animal health service, strengthening an integrated animal disease prevention and control system, which include strengthening vaccine production and regulatory activities, to achieve effective animal diseases prevention and control for improved livestock production and productivity; (vi) beef and dairy development to increase the productivity of cattle through increased feed availability, health and breeds improvement, as well as to improve in yield and quality of products for domestic and export markets; (vii) sheep and goat development to increase the yield of meat, milk skins for leather industry and promote sheep and goat milk through upscaled production practices with more resources and best management practices to meet national demand; (viii) leather value chain, encouraging private sector investment in hides and skins primary production, trading, and leather processing; (ix) poultry production and value chain development through the promotion of indigenous breeds, adequate veterinary services delivery to bridge the gap in diseases surveillance, prevention, and treatment; (x) pig production and value chain development to increase the annual production and survival of pigs through improvement on birth weight, growth rate and adult weight by adopting right management skills as well as reduction of the incidence of diseases, pest and parasites; (xi) micro-livestock development (rabbits, grass-cutter, snail, and bee keeping) to create awareness on micro-livestock domestication, commercialisation; increase yield through the adoption of modern technologies, as well as to increase production through improved nutrition and increased intensification and as well make micro-livestock meat available and affordable.