The Livestock Productivity and Resilience Assist Project (L-PRES) has handed over the newly commissioned Animal Resting and Quarantine Facility in Imeko-Afon, Ogun Status, to the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Facility (NAQS) for operation and administration.
The facility provides a protected place for animals moving across the area to rest, entry water and address essential inspection earlier than persistent their journey. Animals requiring additional attention can additionally be examined and quarantined where necessary.
Beyond the concrete infrastructure, the facility is supplied including computerized platforms to recommend livestock movement, facility operations and holding monitoring.
One of the key features is the computerized manner and movement manual, which provides beneficial information on livestock movement from the facility to other acknowledged routes and corridors.
It helps users spot connections to statewide livestock direction corridors, earliest stock routes and nearby livestock movement paths, providing clearer instruction on how animals can shift from one location to another.
For herders and livestock traders, the platform provides applicable directions and substance on present routes and resting points along their expedition. This can support lessen movement across inappropriate areas and assist stronger utilize of recognised livestock routes.
The internet-based platform additionally supports the monitoring of infrastructure and other assets provided at the facility, helping responsible officers preserve monitor of their requirement and utilize.
The facility will increase the task of quarantine and veterinary officers in monitoring livestock movement and preventing the distribute of animal diseases, particularly approximately border communities.
Alongside the handover to NAQS, trained quarantine officers will take responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the facility and confirm that both the tangible infrastructure and simulated systems are put to right employ.
The Imeko-Afon facility is section of L-PRES investments aimed at improving animal health services, livestock infrastructure, safer livestock movement and the utilize of electronic technology to assist livestock command across Nigeria.
Source: L-PRES hands over facility to quarantine agency in Ogun
