The Kogi State Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support project has taken delivery of vaccines from the L-PRES National Coordination Office in Abuja for mass vaccination against major Transboundary Animal Diseases in Nigeria.

The vaccination programme under the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support project aims to improve animal health and enhance livestock productivity, food safety, and security in Nigeria.

The vaccines were received on Thursday in Lokoja by the project coordinator, Abdulkabir Otaru and handed over to the commissioner for livestock development, Olufemi Bolarin.

Mr Bolarin commended the federal government’s initiative, saying the vaccines would benefit livestock farmers, pastoralists, poultry and small ruminant farmers in Kogi.

“The impact of this initiative is an increase in the livestock productivity as it would improve animal health,” he said.

Mr Otaru earlier described the vaccine delivery as a “critical intervention” that would enhance livestock productivity in Kogi.

According to him, the vaccines include 200,000 doses of CBPP vaccine, 30,000 doses of Newcastle disease vaccine, and 3,000 doses of foot-and-mouth disease vaccine.

He said the vaccines would be administered to livestock at 64 value chain clusters across 21 LGAs.

Mr Otaru noted that the vaccines would be stored in a cold chain facility established by the Kogi L-PRES project at the Ministry of Livestock Development in Kogi.

(NAN)