University To Partner CBN On Poultry Farming

The authorities of  Rivers State University have expressed readiness   to partner the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on  the development of poultry farming in order  to boost agricultural   production and promote food sufficiency in the  country.
The Former Vice  Chancellor of the  University ,  Prof. Blessing Chimezie Didia gave this  indication  when  he received  a delegation of  CBN staff from the Abuja  headquarters who paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Port Harcourt, last Wednesday.
The Former VC who thanked the CBN team for their visit, added that  the collaboration would help to  improve the university- based  poultry   initiatives which he said, was initiated  to boost  meat production in the state and across the country.
He averred that  his administration was already  working out modalities that would  meet the  CBN specified  collaboration standard.
Earlier in his speech,  the Leader of the Delegation and Senior Manager, CBN, Abuja, Mrs. Juliet Azikiwe  explained   that the CBN team  was at the institution to inspect  the  status of the University’s  poultry  farm  in respect to its  proposal for  collaboration.