The Feed Business Practitioners Affiliation of Nigeria has promised to proceed to drive progress within the nation’s livestock regardless of the difficult working setting.
The FIPAN President, Dr Ayoola Odutan, said this just lately in Lagos throughout his inauguration because the affiliation’s new president.
The outgoing president, Mr Raymond Isiadiso, obtained accolades for his contributions to FIPAN’s progress throughout his tenure.
Oduntan described Isiadiso’s tenure as useful within the elevation of the affiliation to international recognition.
In his acceptance speech, Odutan expressed his deep gratitude to the members for putting their belief in him.
He mentioned, “Nigeria’s feed has been taken to the worldwide enviornment. Earlier than, we have been in obscurity in any respect these worldwide conferences.
Nonetheless, the brand new FIPAN president mentioned he remained optimistic in regards to the progress potential, as FIPAN was essential to Nigeria’s agricultural sector and the broader economic system.
“Regardless of the challenges, the feed business has made outstanding strides in making certain the diet and well-being of tens of millions of Nigerians,” mentioned Odutan. “We now have moved from obscurity to international relevance, representing Africa at worldwide boards. Our objective now could be to construct on this basis and elevate Nigeria’s feed business to even larger heights.”
A spotlight of the occasion was the presence of business leaders, together with Folorunsho Ogunaike, Simieon Onwofa, Dr Folayan Afebo, and Dr David Michael, who pledged to assist the brand new FIPAN management.
The business gamers highlighted the numerous alternatives obtainable within the sector, noting the low protein consumption in Nigeria and the business’s potential to handle the nationwide problem.
The previous President of FIPAN, Isiadiso, hailed the efforts of the outgoing executives and expressed confidence in Odutan’s capability to drive the business ahead.
He addressed the bane of insecurity within the feed sector and mentioned, “Nationally, we shouldn’t be the place we’re or complaining the best way we’re complaining.
“We’re blessed with arable land that may be very productive. We’re additionally inquisitive folks able to plant the lands which are pure and fertile, however we have now the difficulty of insecurity, which has inadvertently decreased the lands and palms obtainable for manufacturing.”
The previous Vice President of FIPAN, Adewale Adekunle, urged the Federal Authorities to assist the folks discover a option to cut back taxes in order that the disposable revenue that individuals can be sufficient to construct the economic system.
The brand new treasurer of FIPAN, Olukorede Adebanjo, spoke on the excessive price of uncooked supplies and the way it had been affecting the feed sector.
He defined, “Mainly, proper now, we have now a dire and difficult state of affairs, all costs are going up.
“We now have seven main supplies for producing animal feed, a few of that are; Maize and Soya, however due to the current state of Nigeria’s economic system, all the costs of those supplies have been tremendously affected.
“The federal government will help us with insurance policies to cut back the value of those supplies. It will translate into the discount of the costs of our merchandise and as effectively generate into a discount of the value of consumption of protein within the nation,” she added.
