COWS WILL COST N2 MILLION EACH IF LAGOS PASSES ANTIOPEN GRAZING LAW - MIYETTI ALLAH

The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association (MACBAN) has warned that the price of a cow could go up as high as N2 million of the Lagis State Government passes the proposed antiopen grazing law.

The association's zonal secretary for South West, Maikudi Usman, made the disclosure on Wednesday during a one day public hearing organised by the state House of Assembly on the antiopen grazing bill.

Mr Usman said ranching, as being proposed by the government, was capital intensive and his members could not afford it.

"If cattle are bred in one place, the price could go up to about two million naira each we agreed with some local chiefs in other states that anyone who wants to rear cows in a location should register and should indicate when he is leaving," he disclosed.

The Miyetli Allah leader added that the best way to breed cattle was to move them from one place to another, saying that they were moved to different places during the rainy and dry season.

"Our breeders are not used to breeding cattle in one place."

They move from here to another place.

Making further excuses, Mr Usman pleaded with the government for more time to enlighten herdsmen on breeding cattle in one place rather than encroaching on farmlands.