Nigeria has 20 million cows, so why does it rely on imports? | DW News

[@Senen-l3z]

With 70 million cattle, 42 million sheep, 52 million goats, 8 million camels, and 56 million chickens, Ethiopia has the largest livestock population across the African continent. However, the problem in African cattle is the absence of productivity and value add industry including meat, milk and skin proceiving companies.

[@pk3778]

There's a habitable zone for significant animal domestication and ranching that is parallel to the civilization of mankind and empires, the Rift Valley Plains of East Africa are the beginnings of mankind and human civilizations, and the Sahel of Africa is where humanity first thrived free off tropical pests and diseases.... The Sahel and the African Rift Valley intersect precisely in South Sudan , at the point of the most fertile and contested land on earth the flood marshes of Kerma, that are the "lower Egypt" and founding of an empire romanticized by European (Greek and later Roman) conquest and cultural appropriation.... But, there many other stories of humanity, in the glory of Africa that preceded the founding of Egypt----

[@jackholman5008]

The issue is consumption people eat too much

[@valentineisraelshabangu4069]

Botswana per capita has more cows than any country in Africa

[@BgsgStarts]

Check yours HANDS EARS AND FEETS to join ISLAM don't forget to SHALAT too

[@kamalesdas3102]

India had 308 million 😂

[@laudsrealm188]

The word superpower has lost all significance clearly

[@haroldhahn7044]

In the rest of the world, cattle are raised and milked on the farmers own land, as a business. Without land, there is no point in owning cattle, no milk, no butter, no cheese, no dairy industry. Land ownership has to come first.

[@sixfiftyfive2386]

Yes

[@Samayil_2024]

Don't have cows if you dont have land.

[@pk3778]

You can't own the ancient grazing ranges of the Sahel and the Rift valley plains of East of Africa---that is asking for political trouble...

[@cabococarlos1936]

We Brazilians have 200 million cows. 20 millions is nothing

[@Africanladyy]

Cows full with hormones...

[@ahmadbinali4668]

20 million cows plus 200 million plus people

[@mrmoneycomesfirst]

My friend that not the same. Y’all cows eats GMO and and inject them with steroids. These cows taste much batter and way way natural. Cows are free only 90 percent eats grass African grass (God giving grass)

[@Peggyg13]

That’s bad for the environment just imagine 200 million cows farting at once 😂

[@mrmoneycomesfirst]

These are African cows. Your Brazilian cows eats GMO food and steroid injected. These cows 90 to 95 percent only eats grasses, African grass, God giving grass

[@maxdout564]

Quality over quantity, these little Indigenous cows are not efficient in milk or meat production.

[@masterlightjames950]

Our local cows produce healthy A2 milk. Foreign cows produce toxic A1 milk. We'll keep our quality. You keep your quantity.

[@okman9684]

​@@masterlightjames950A2 milk is a myth. Its a marketing strategy to sell more mill by A2 milk company. Both A1 and A2 have the property. Its just a feel good marketing term

[@masterlightjames950]

@@okman9684 whatever. Go ahead and keep consuming A1 milk. I'll stick with A2. Funny enough, it's the A1 milk producers that have the biggest and most structured dairy organisations. A2 producers are usually very small scale and not as ambitious as you claim.

[@Sekou156]

Cow superpower indeed. Europeans don't coin words loosely. They mean it literally 😅😅😅😅

[@mcdonald1821]

Livestock isn't about cows alone.

[@32stevo]

20m is a tiny number considering they have over 200m people

[@pk3778]

Then if this were a natural market driven reality, then local beef farmers would make a killing, but because the beef industry has been abrogated by the state to foreign exchange, then the beef imports will forever keep increasing to meet the needs, for foreign exchange dollars... The Nigerian INTERNAL beef MARKET is the target--- countries like Kenya, have nationalized (parastatal) the nomadic agriculture/husbandry sector. Kenyans also have new emergent problems to, in the creation of land consuming "ranches" aka "conservancies", but atleast, in the short-term those reduce conflicts between animal and crop farmers.... There is clearly no need for Nigeria to reinvent the wheel, they can learn from either Kenya or Botswana granted the Fulani-Sahel nomadic cattle ranch circuit that is as old as civilised Africa itself, is an EXTREMELY difficult proposition, that will require multinational and indigenous DEMOCRATIC solutions.. There already exists a western solution with African (social) characteristics....

[@BgsgStarts]

Check yours HANDS EARS AND FEETS to join ISLAM don't forget to SHALAT too

[@YatsarEL-17]

Not really considering the fact it takes like 30 people to eat one cow

[@theinternetsavedmylife]

​@@YatsarEL-17Will they eat a cattle once their lives?? 😂😂

[@YatsarEL-17]

@@theinternetsavedmylife 1 person will not even eat I cattle a year and you also realise that cattle breed right😂 every year these cattle give birth no more cattle so 20m in a population is even too many cows

[@FargarJaji-p6f]

I viewed from the beginning to the end, I can't understand the plan! So a new ministry is set up to find a new way out not to implement a well-researched plan.

[@BGboy87]

They have no well- researched plan

[@SIRLEE]

The starting point for any viable livestock industry is a sustainable land tenure system. Given the current mess surrounding landholding and ownership rights for land in Nigeria, I can confidently say that Nigeria will be a big importer for livestock products over the next 100 years.

[@Peggyg13]

Fulani culture is the problem they are just not interested in cattle ranching. When the government attempted to pass the livestock act they resisted. Fulani herders are not interested in modernity.

[@yournotjokinggovernment]

The fasting growing residential construction in Africa. Well done 👏

[@juniourx2203]

Please remove that caption ,and review it DW NEWS and put it like this "Exploring Nigeria’s Potential to Become a Global Player in the Cattle Industry." Does this sound proffesional ,dont you have editors in there ohhhh .....am from kenya i speak english , I thought it was germans translating german into english 😅😅😅😅😅

[@Replicant-by1eh]

Can't beat India.

[@ebunoluwa2172]

This is the bedrock of Nigeria conflict, those cattles are not primary for economic gain but political maneuver by the Fulani elite. They know what to do but they prefer the mayhem caused by herders to the farmland, people and every other other citizen.

[@adeyinkaoladapo5863]

You dont have to politicize everything

[@ebunoluwa2172]

@adeyinkaoladapo5863 , nonsense, you don't need to hide behind one finger. Is the Fulani elite not using this politically?. Is moving cattle from one end to the other not a problem in Nigeria??.

[@TheSitcheeation]

Bovine exporter? No. Ranching industry? No. Cattle supplier? No. Cow superpower. 💀

[@elicutemedia]

Seriously 😅. Why "cow superpower"?

[@Devotee_of_the_Divine]

India has 308 million cattle thanks to white revolution in 1970 which help Increased milk production, Rural development, Empowered women, Reduced dependency on imports, Fair prices, Organized dairy sector and Nigeria can also do it we have faith in you.

[@ue7811]

Its deceitful when your low quality cows aren't demanded or consumed by the locals, but you think you can compete on a global scale. You cannot tackle security, but you want productivity and seamless logistics for trading.

[@masterlightjames950]

Our cows produce healthy A2 milk. If you had consumed such milk, your brain would be in a better state, preventing you from making such a comment as this.

[@human8454]

Cow superpower 😂

[@Skamlostmanontheplanet]

Indians worship cows but India is the second biggest exporter of beef

[@Fido1010]

What's funny here. That's how you limit yourself by denial ." I can't do it. "...

[@okene]

​@@Fido1010lmao Nigerian geography and climate is not conducive to cattle hurding. Brazil has more cows than people. Australia has a cow for every two people, we don't even have a cow for every ten. Historically people in the south never herded cows at scale for a reason, it's just not all that viable. 1 big reason being Trypanosomiasis from Tse Tse flies

[@rcana5803]

A Sri Lankan/Tamil and my parents lived in Nigeria for a long time in Ibadan city and we have travelled as far as kano. It is better to stick to the traditional ways of doing dairy farming that Nigeria has been doing since time immemorial. Nigeria could provide various forms of assistance to the small diary farmers to make things better and increase the production. . Small-scale diary farms also provide jobs to thousands of herders and others. Another interesting fact is, cows in Nigeria, are mostly free range and the milk produced is way better. Above all, political stability would provide boost to everything.

[@masterlightjames950]

Commercialized livestock system will be a disaster. Profit over health is madness. Allow the cattle roam if you don't have a reasonable plan to encourage ORGANIC cattle rearing.

[@mikolowiskamikolowiska4993]

Can you afford it. Talk with sense

[@east_coast_ceo1070]

USA 🇺🇸 ❤ Nigeria 🇳🇬

[@usplayers07]

The government needs to remove it's hands on everything

[@sulaak]

This is where the government must be involved to control the wandering Fulani herders

[@DupeeUduak]

What are the actual plans they have for them?pls we want to see results

[@Tropical_Frank]

What nonsense is this? Is it not the Fulani people who are doing the killing and kidnapping? Who will plan to kidnap a Fulani man? There is no reason for these Fulani herders to carry their cows to the city. With the long rainy season this year there are more than enough grazing areas. This smells like manipulation. I think they want to give money to the Fulani since buhari don comot to appease them.

[@uknowamsaying]

Which schools failed you that you fell to this level of dunce-ness? Which state poly produced you?

[@alulaish]

DW why are you obsessed with superpower

[@grimsobad8545]

In India we have 70 million dogs 🐶🐶 can we become a global good boy superpower?

[@sirkermitthefirstoffrogeth9622]

😂

[@speedking1353]

Maybe if it works on ridding its reputation of being the hub of scammers 🤷‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@masterlightjames950]

Dummy

[@donnajazz7726]

Nigeria has 19.5 million malnourished cows

[@chiefs5822]

non-gmo cows! compared to your cancer given gmo cows fed with hormones

[@christianokudzeto-ahadjie9706]

We need the same approach across Africa as a whole....

[@bingorolly]

Eastern and Southern Africa is way ahead in dairy farming.

[@faithkerubo8357]

​@@bingorollymostly because most of us can digest lactose....for west and Central Africans,most are lactose intolerant

[@congozaire6199]

​@@faithkerubo8357 what's? No they are intolerant

[@faithkerubo8357]

Lactose intolerant people are more likely to experience bloating,diarrhoea,have a lot of gas,nausea,belly cramps...just general discomfort so most people will avoid the discomfort and the result is most not having a reason to drink milk straight from a cow...hence the underdeveloped dairy sector

[@Joseph247100]

Most of these experts that come on air to analyse issues are experts in criticism than proferring solutions. While the challenges will always be there, the new initiative should be embraced and supported by majority of the stakeholders. At the height of the Nigerian herders-farmers crisis couple of years ago, Tinubu released a press statement where this idea now being implemented were highlighted. There's the need for action and having a dedicated livestock ministry will surely boost efforts geared towards addressing the challenges in the sector. Going commercial does not necessarily imply an end to subsistence livestock farming. I am from Southwest Nigeria, I won't take unprocessed cow milk. Even if I can buy from my local livestock herder, I can't drink it. Synergy is required to maximized the potentials of the sector. Do African countries still adopt developmental strategies that the advanced countries have now jettisoned? Yes because it's a necessary process. I don't think we can jump the process particularly in respect of industrialization. What is most required is character and leadership from those saddled with the responsibility of implementing this new approach and support of the major stakeholders. Security should also be boosted and national interest placed above personal entrepreneurial benefits.

[@HalikaTanitavia]

As a Brazilian, I feel that it is very hard for Nigerians to live there because the prices in Nigeria are rising too fast.

[@nerdsheldon7843]

Continue breed and rear only the indigenous species.

[@robertbones326]

The title sounds like a joke

[@okman9684]

Yeah cows give you Superpower

[@michaeltebandeke4593]

Go and learn the culture of African cattle keeping communities before you come up with these so called commercial ideas

[@schucks]

No they can't...my Nigerian brothers, the guy is into oil. As a South African brother, i can tell you this....nigeria is reach, the country is reach, united you can make it. Fighting amongst yourselves won't solve the situation.

[@canon5059]

😂 200million people population vs 20million cattle😂😂 That's pure jokes

[@Samayil_2024]

Another Cow Jihad.

[@GeorginaJett]

Such a resources RICH country - WHY CANT YOUR GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE SORT IT OUT???!!!

[@sixfiftyfive2386]

pathetic political movements that oppose "capitalism," meaning everyone stays poor except a few at the top & nothing ever develops

[@masterlightjames950]

Tell your Bill Gates to leave us alone first.

[@ahmadbinali4668]

How is this going to benefit an average fulani herder?. If it only of benefit to abuja people, then it's just a scam.

[@thestrangers3638]

ddon't believe him oooh, tinubu no know wetin he dey do

[@SK-lt1so]

Powerful cow lobby

[@thefuturefunclub]

Who counted them?

[@billtev9846]

Nigeria used to be the a natural Palm oil superpower but it was ill advised and the same seeds from Nigeria delta transformed Malaysia into a palm oil power. I hope Nigerian students can work at getting this plant to where it was once.

[@EverGreen7990]

Nigeria vs india. Cow vs cow.

[@ernestgbarbea1878]

Indian Lord Ram

[@dalemsilas8425]

Cattle farming is one of the most successful sectors in nigeria. Stop trying to fix what's not broken.

[@surajkumarpathak-ke1sd]

No India is already cow super power💪

[@MukadisAymen-ui8fy]

This is very good if they can do it as they say all the best Africa....

[@sonofra889]

I'll love to see how the Nigerian government gets past Miyetti Allah.

[@raina99716]

India already have that title😅 in india we have cows everywhere on our cities roaming around eating every pile in streets 😊

[@Replicant-by1eh]

It's not for meat though. It's cow paradise.

[@makesonghaigreatagain123]

It is because you worship them

[@dhruvsatti5535]

​@@makesonghaigreatagain123That's a big misconception we don't worship the cows we respect the cows as it is associated with purity and motherhood. So no one is praying to the cow.

[@nyabinghi870]

We eat cows, we don't see them us god

[@SandeepSingh-or7jr]

Brazil have more cattle than india

[@usplayers07]

This is pure stupidity.

[@yuluoxianjun]

i mean,20 million cows sounds not that much if they have much more people,and lack industry

[@giridharm5598]

All the best from india india👍

[@schucks]

Policies failing the guy on the farm...again. raising cows in town😢.

[@sulaak]

Nigeria is a very unproductive country. Ranching will see the cattle number of cow to grow to 200 millions

[@MOCHI-ek6rc]

Cattle travelling across the country destroying lands and the herdsmen killing and attacking innocent people at night. These challenges have led to food inflation, insecurities, displacement, and people moving into urdan centres.

[@AhmedOyenuga]

U are a fool, is there cows superior power..

[@ogbuonyeka8520]

Cow superpower county😂😂😂😂

[@Phantom-z8d]

Can't wait to see milk in US labeled "Product of Nigeria".

[@Thekogiman]

American milk is subsidized and protected. African milk will never be trusted.

[@larrybabs3579]

What a sarcastic, nonsensical HEADLINE READING 😡 Cow Superpower??

[@Coziitech]

DW, your last speaker, Chika, doesn't know jack about the Agriculture / livestock industry. Next time, please interview policy makers with specialization in the topic being discussed.

[@mrmoneycomesfirst]

These cows taste way way batter than any cows in Europe. She working for EU acting like she’s batter. The land available for them to be free ranch She’s well trained by European people

[@theallseeingeye9388]

Nigeria seems to have a law and order situation. From bandits running riot in rural areas to cow herders and their flock roaming the urban city scape.

[@mrmoneycomesfirst]

These cows taste way way batter than any cows in Europe. She working for EU acting like she’s batter. The land available for them to be free ranch

[@SGOA32178]

i recently learnt that Nigeria imports dairy products from Europe mainly Netherlands and Denmark, even as far away as New Zealand. Here in Kenya we have a thriving dairy industry, how can it be explained that they cannot explore the prospect of importing from us. Some please explain this to me!

[@jakekim8150]

Cow super power... Cow giant of Africa

[@rotimikayode1072]

20 million cows cannot meet the needs of over 200million people.

[@billtev9846]

East Africa had 5 million cattle before the arrival of the Europeans and something happen to those cows and individual families became poorer

[@bingorolly]

What ancient breed of cows are these 🤯

[@prateekchauhan3588]

Cows are fine but they are underfed , skinny and too much walking

[@masterlightjames950]

The real breed. They produce healthy A2 milk and have sufficient exercise. Their meat is perfect.

[@ayoonide]

Small scale farming is not a sustainable model. There is no economies of scale. Nigeria seriously needs to scale its agriculture to feeds itself and then share with the rest of the world. We have had subsistent farming for decades, where is the impact? Infact, it is highly susceptible to failing under adversity, but commercial agriculture could be highly resilient - if the incentives are right by the government. Part of this incentive is the Nigerian government getting out of the way of progress.

[@Peggyg13]

Since the the 1970’s the government has tried and failed to entice Fulani herders into ranching even with free land. Fulani nomadic culture is the biggest problem. They resist the idea of ranching, they say it’s against their way of life. This herders trespass and trample on farmlands which gives rise to conflict. This reportage is not a accurate reflection of what’s happening.

[@veshrajshrestha3710]

Cow superpower word to humiliation for Nigeria. Shame on west

[@skhuvilakazi9362]

😂😂😂😂😂 cows superpower 😅

[@Tropical_Frank]

The LAST Censor was in 1991... they are clueless

[@Thekogiman]

No 2006

[@Tropical_Frank]

@Thekogiman ANIMAL CENSUS. The man says is clearly when the last census was

[@gobestudiosGH]

Some of them are in parliament 😂😂😂

[@javidrahman6053]

Control human population and increase animal population and food efficiently

[@Amazila]

This is embarrassing Anyway, there are countries with way more cows and smaller landmass; yet living peacefully with the non cate rearers. Nigeria with with far fewer number if cows are causing untold destruction to farmlands across the nation and destroying communities writh impunity over refusal to allow their crops be used as feeding geounds for cows. Therefore, let Nigeria remain as it is with her few cows because increasing the livestock's will escalate her internal conflicts exponentially.

[@Prashant_Pandey4]

very unprofessional reporting.

[@chimzieobioma405]

She is talking nonsense. Just keep the cows in ranch whether as a commercial or small scale farmer). This stops the blood- bathing encounters when the Fulani pastoralists and the host communities and farmers.

[@YaseenPatel-o1d]

Could be

[@prck4630]

No

[@Yourfriendwasmagnificent]

It's a scammers superpower already.

[@masterlightjames950]

Fool

[@Yourfriendwasmagnificent]

@masterlightjames950 W⚓️

[@sixfiftyfive2386]

Wait I thought cattle were bad for the environment & being banned

[@MostlyPeacefulNinja]

Insulting headline and title. You people are wicked!

[@VIVABELLAVIVAHERMANO]

A cow superpower 😂

[@zolisamaine3518]

Fulani are the most hated nigerians in Nigeria. So that won't work. Fulani won't allow it.

[@fataiadegbenro984]

Dr Chaka please your statement are sentimental not facts base

[@Ukrainewar145]

MAD PEOPLE EVERYWHERE

[@ilehegime5584]

I ask but you people are not paying taxes for the covement to provide water an a good place?

[@urbansenicar81]

Not to mention the dog !

[@akwasiboat]

*Cow Superpower. Really??*

[@gorishokgo5825]

nigeria news - nigeria speaker 😂😂😂😂😂😂 hamaswelle make my day 😂😂😂

[@huawei755]

Poor abused animals..

[@asadbhuiyan5719]

Cow🐄🐄🐂 are beauty in wrold part

[@tomhenry897]

Are they fit to eat

[@ebiekem]

..........I'm sorry....a what now..?

[@balerikirmu.11]

If Africans gonna find solution to their problems, best to look to other African countries or members of the global south.

[@pk3778]

FOREIGN EXCHANGE----dollars! Then if this were a natural market driven reality, then local beef farmers would make a killing, but because the beef industry has been abrogated by the state to foreign exchange, then the beef imports will forever keep increasing to meet the needs, for foreign exchange dollars... The Nigerian INTERNAL beef MARKET is the target--- countries like Kenya, have nationalized (parastatal) the nomadic agriculture/husbandry sector. Kenyans also have new emergent problems to, in the creation of land consuming "ranches" aka "conservancies", but atleast, in the short-term those reduce conflicts between animal and crop farmers.... There is clearly no need for Nigeria to reinvent the wheel, they can learn from either Kenya or Botswana granted the Fulani-Sahel nomadic cattle ranch circuit that is as old as civilised Africa itself, is an EXTREMELY difficult proposition, that will require multinational and indigenous DEMOCRATIC solutions.. There already exists the possibility in the Sahel for a western solution to beef farming, albeit with African (social) characteristics....

[@pk3778]

There's a habitable zone for significant animal domestication and ranching that is parallel to the civilization of mankind and empires, the Rift Valley Plains of East Africa are the beginnings of mankind and human civilizations, and the Sahel of Africa is where humanity first thrived free off tropical pests and diseases.... The Sahel and the African Rift Valley intersect precisely in South Sudan , at the point of the most fertile and contested land on earth the flood marshes of Kerma, that are the "lower Egypt" and founding of an empire romanticized by European (Greek and later Roman) conquest and cultural appropriation.... But, there many other stories of humanity, in the glory of Africa that preceded the founding of Egypt----

[@joerichards1000]

I think 20 million cows is very little for a 200 million people population.

[@Tropical_Frank]

Who do you think counted? They don't know how many people there are in the country not to talk of how many cows

[@mannetjie3248]

Jollofstan 🚮

[@Leoo594]

😂😂😂😂

[@stephenodhiambo7556]

20 million cows against 2000 million people who eat meat like nonsense!