VIV organises animal protein summit in Nigeria

Nigeria's agribusiness leaders, organisations and authorities partook in a one-day international summit to explore the development of the country's poultry production sector

The event took place in Nigeria's capital city, Abuja, on 15 January 2014 and was organised by the VIV Europe team.

Nigeria is expecting that its demand for animal protein will rise quickly over the next few years, with its population set to reach 700mn and the government has listed agriculture and food production as its top priorities to meet the challenge.

It also recently revealed that the expansion of the poultry and aquaculture sectors are a key target.

Nigeria is the first African nation to hold an event under the official title of the VIV International Nigeria Summit, which included some roadshow activities visiting various continents on behalf of the VIV Europe 2014 global expo for poultry and livestock husbandry and processing.

Global experts in poultry and aquaculture hosted the event, providing examples of technical best practices as the foundation for the expansion of animal protein supplies from Nigerian farms.

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Articles under The Hindu's Farmers Notebook in book form
Speakers at the release of the book, Impact of The Hindu's Farmers Note Book on Technology Literacy of Farmers, here on Saturday dwelt on ways of making farming remunerative.
Welfare Organisation for Rural Development (WORD-Tirupati) and Sustainable Agro Alliance Limited (SAAL-Madurai) brought out the book, a compilation of 180 articles published over the past six years in the Farmers Notebook column of The Hindu.
Farm scientist Velamoor Rajagopal, the brain behind the work, said the book carried interesting articles with case studies, success stories and innovative farm practices.
It would be translated into Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Marathi and Hindi.
Expressing concern at the falling contribution of agriculture to the Gross Domestic Product, Chittoor Collector K. Ramgopal called cooperative farming the elixir to rid agriculture of its woes.
An agriculture graduate himself, Mr. Ramgopal advised farmers to divide tasks among themselves to cut operational cost.
"Strong leadership at the village level and farmers' willingness to look beyond their farm bund can ensure its success."
The Hindu's Managing Editor V. Jayanth, who released the book, said dissemination of information was a major function of a newspaper.
Agriculture was an important sector where information needed to be shared. The successive editors of the newspaper had great concern for agriculture and felt that the newspaper would be failing in its primary duty if due priority was not accorded to agriculture.
K. Ramaswamy, Vice-Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (Coimbatore), lauded the efforts of The Hindu's agriculture correspondent M.J. Prabu and wanted the book made part of the curriculum.
"Science journalists have the ability to look beyond what we [academics] see," he said, seeking a higher allocation to strengthen the academic infrastructure to match the rise in the number of seats.
ISCA president and former Vice-Chancellor of Sri Venkateshwara University R. Ramamurthi called farmers "rural innovators."
SV Agricultural College Associate Dean N.P. Eswara Reddy, Regional Agricultural Research Station associate director of research T. Giridhara Krishna, P.N. Vedanarayanan of the special task force on delta farmers' welfare (Tamil Na

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