22 Governors Apply As FG Gegins Ranch Fund’s Disbursement

No fewer than 22 states have written to the Federal Government to indicate interest in the National Livestock Transformation Programme.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Agriculture, ANDREW KWASARI, who also coordinates the programme, disclosed this in an interview with journalists, adding that the Federal Government would start disbursing funds for model ranches in the next one week.

According to him, states whose governors have written the Federal Government include, Kaduna, Benue, Taraba, Adamawa, Plateau, Zamfara, Kano, Ondo, Katsina, Bauchi, Yobe, Borno, Gombe, Nasarawa, Niger, Sokoto, Ekiti, Kogi, Ebonyi and Kwara.