Livestock and Fisheries Department
This is livestock and Fisheries Department.
The mandate of the department is in the development, collation and dissemination of proven livestock and fisheries technology and carry out adoption study on the disseminated technology.
Our areas of expertise are both in animal and fish production. The specialties in the areas of animal production includes nutrition of both small and large ruminants and breeding, while in fisheries production we are involved in fisheries ecology, breeding, nutrition and processing technology.
The activities in the department is on research and extension and it is centered on sustainable use of livestock and fisheries inputs to produce output that can be recycled in environmental friendly agricultural production activities. The department is actively involved in the activities of the skills acquisition and entrepreneurship unit of the institute. Other activities incudes:
- Production of extension publications of national relevance in livestock and fisheries
- Conduct research in the areas of technology transfer and adoption process
- Produce materials of national importance for radio/television extension programmes
- Produce other media packages to support extension efforts in livestock and fisheries
- Initiate and or participate in training organised by the institute
- Identify field problems in livestock and fisheries and communicate same to relevant Research institute.
The department has participated in a number of project among which includes:
- Training of youth on livestock and fisheries farming sponsored by NNPC
- Livestock extension publication production for West African Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAP, Nigeria).
Nothing found matching the selected criteria.
- Prof. Ikani Awarded Int’l Peace Advocate
The Executive Director of NAERLS, Professor Emmanuel Ikani has been given an award of International Peace Advocate by the United - Minister of Agriculture & Rural Development Commissions NAERLS SAEDCThe Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, on Saturday 8 April 2023, commissioned the NAERLS
- Nigeria to Host the 6th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week, 2023NIGERIA is to host the 6th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week, tagged Abuja 2023. The Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week (AAEW) is
- NAERLS Inaugurates Committee on ICTThe Institute has inaugurated a Committee on ICT, to be headed by Professor Christogonus Daudu (picture insert). At the inauguration
