Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday, launched a cattle initiative, tagged “Osun Beef (O-Beef)”, to enhance the capacity of the state to become the major supplier of cows and rams to some other states across the country.
Under this arrangement, Governor Aregbesola has brought into the state a team of livestock experts from Zambia, led by, Mr Craig Shiel as technical consultant to Osun State on livestock to train interested cattle rearers, butchers and interested youths on how to engage in the business and make more profit.
Launching the O-Beef initiative at a stakeholders meeting with Cattle Rearers, Breeders, Dealers, Butchers and Youth at the state secretariat, he declared that his administration would construct modern abattoir and cold room where the beef would be prepared and stored for higher profit in strict compliance with the demands of public health.
The trainees, according to the governor, would also use the opportunity of the rail services project of the present administration to transport the cows and beef to Lagos where kiosks would have been provided for the sale of “Osun Beef”.