By Ismail Auwal
The Kano State Agro Pastoral Development Project (KSADP) would repair and upgrade the Falgore Cattle Market in Doguwa local government area, as well as four other similar markets throughout the state.
Provision of loading and off loading ramps, irrigation facilities, drainages, office space for market information, security and veterinary services, trade and security lighting at night, and bathroom facilities are among the tasks to be completed in the markets.
Malam Ibrahim Garba Muhammad, the State Project Coordinator for the KSADP, stated this while receiving representatives of Falgore Community Dairy and Farming Cooperatives who paid him a visit at the project office.
He further revealed that the project has concluded plans to site at least five milk collection centers around the Falgore area, “so that members of your cooperatives can collect the milk in one location, from where it can be transported to markets or processors can come and buy, thus saving your women the trouble of travelling to the city to sell it”.
Malam Ibrahim urged the people from the community to support KSADP towards the realization of its objectives, stressing that many of the project’s interventions would positively change the living standard of pastoralists.
The Project Coordinator listed specific areas of intervention including Grazing reserve development, fodder production, improved milk collection, stock route demarcation, Training and coaching for livestock activities, supporting small ruminants value chain, Livestock production and fattening scheme and improved animal health services.
He assured that KSADP and the state government are working together to see how they can initiate a programme to enhance socio-economic inclusiveness for Fulani youth.
Earlier, the representatives of the Dairy and Farming communities, Malam Haruna Mu’azu and Ardo Umar Lawan Motar Kara requested KSADP to provide schools for their children, engage their people in the project’s livestock fattening scheme as well as construct milk collection centers in their communities.
