No.
No grazing areas should be created in the South bcs the Fulani militia/herdsmen are a deadly , militarised and highly armed terrorist group, who are on a campaign of land acquisition through conquest.
Giving them any space in the South is dangerous.
Nigerians should resist such an initiative at all cost.Secondly, it is not the business of the govt to provide land for private business people.The Igbo business people are among the greatest migrants in African but no one creates free trading spaces for them.This Fulani exceptionalism is absolute nonsense and we most protect ourselves from their deadly greed.It is possible to grow grass in the North.Is food not grown in the North and transported to the South for sale?Don't the countries in the Middle East with their extremely hot weather grow food?Is Israel not described as famed for its water system?Argentina is one of the world's greatest exporters of beef and their cattle husbandry is run using ranches created by a private collectives.Please confine the Fulani herdsmen/militia to the North.We dont want another seed of further chaos and bloodletting in Nigeria.thanks
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Nigeria to create grazing areas in south to end farmers, herdsmen clashes – Minister
January 13, 2016
Premium Times
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, has said that the incessant clashes between farmers and cattle herdsmen in the country would be brought to an end in the next two years.
Mr. Ogbeh said on Tuesday that the federal government would create grazing areas in the country where the herdsmen would take care of their cattle.
"We will grow grass in the South to feed the cattle in the North, just as Saudi Arabia did," he said.
According to the minister, if Saudi Arabia with the largest cattle ranch in the world can grow its grass for the cows in the United States of America, Nigeria should be able to do same.
Mr. Ogbeh said the government would lobby banks to peg interest rate at five per cent instead of the current nine per cent.
He made this known in Ilorin at the launching of the 2nd phase of Agricultural Equipment Hiring Enterprise (AEHE) programme at the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanism, (NCAM).
The minister said nine per cent was too high as interest rate for farmers, adding that for people of Nigeria to feed well, agriculture must grow.
"So interest rate has to come down, if this is done, banks will have more loans to give and more farmers will be taking the loan because of the low rate," Mr. Ogbe said.
The minister said he would soon come out with a road map for the ministry, adding that the ministry would come up with soil map of the country.
With this soil map, farmers would know the type of fertiliser suitable for his farm and how to apply same for optimal yield.
He said his ministry was targeting three million metric tons of cocoa and planned to plant more castor trees, rice, sugar and wheat.
Mr. Ogbe commended NCAM for its efforts in the mechanization of agriculture, adding that no country can practice large scale agriculture without mechanization.
He promised that the Federal Government would assist NCAM to improve on the tractors it developed.
"We cannot develop agriculture by distributing cutlasses and hoes to the farmers, only one per cent of farms are produced by mechanized farming," he said.
The minister lamented that Nigeria has less than 300 tractors while the whole of Europe and USA are completely mechanized.
Mr. Ogbe said that from available statistics, there are 800 million hectares of farm land in the world with 400 million of this from Africa.
He said Nigeria has 79 per cent of farmland which translated to 92 sq km of land, adding that Nigeria is wealthy as land is wealth everywhere.
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How I plan to end Fulani herdsmen, farmers clashes – Buhari
January 25, 2016 Premium Times
President Muhammadu Buhari said Monday in Abuja that poverty, injustice and the lack of job opportunities were mainly responsible for inter-communal and intra-communal conflicts in Nigeria.
Speaking while receiving a delegation from the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, an organization active in the promotion of peace in Nigeria, President Buhari said to achieve enduring peace in the country, greater effort must be made to eradicate poverty and injustice.
The president described ethnic and religious conflicts in parts of the country as outward manifestations of underlying problems of joblessness, injustice and poverty.
On conflicts between farmers and herdsmen, President Buhari said that a plan to map out grazing areas will soon be presented to the Nigerian Governors Forum as a temporary solution to the frequent conflicts until cattle owners are persuaded to adopt other means of rearing their cattle.
Repeated clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers have led to thousands of deaths.
On Sunday, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in charge of Vunokilang Police Station in Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa State was killed alongside 30 other people in an attack by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
The suspected herdsmen raided four villages: Demsare, Wunamokoh, Dikajam and Taboungo in what is believed to be a vengeance mission over an existing feud with farmers in the area.
Several houses and other property in the villages were also burnt in the attack.
The DPO, Okozie Okereofor, a Chief Superintendent of Police, who was deployed to the state about two months ago, was said to have been ambushed when he was leading police officers to the disputed area. He was killed in the eventual shootout with his assailants.
The Police in Adamawa have confirmed the killing of Mr. Okereofor.
"The DPO and his team were attacked while on official duty in the affected villages where he was killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen," the spokesperson of the Adamawa State Police Command, Othman Abubakar, said.
Mr. Buhari commended the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue for the relative peace that had returned to Plateau State as well as their on-going activity in Southern Kaduna.
He agreed with the centre that dialogue was always preferable to the use of law and order mechanisms and force in the resolution of conflicts.
The Executive Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, David Harland, told President Buhari that following their success in facilitating the settlement of the inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflicts in Plateau State, the group had moved to Kaduna State.
He expressed the hope that the techniques used in bringing peace to Plateau State can soon be deployed to deal with the Boko Haram insurgency and other conflicts in Nigeria.
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