Nigeria, March 14 -- In a significant step towards enhancing the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, over one hundred livestock farmers have benefited from the initial phase of a goats empowerment initiative spearheaded by key stakeholders in the state's livestock sector.

The Commissioner for Livestock Development, Mrs. Oloruntoyosi Thomas, made this announcement during the distribution exercise held at the State Coordination Office of the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES) in Ilorin. This initiative forms part of the state government's broader strategy to bolster the livestock sector by increasing the income of smallholder farmers engaged in livestock farming.

As the first Commissioner for the newly establis...