Breaking: President Buhari visits Kaduna state, commissions $150m project (photos)

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday, September 12, join Governor Nasir El-Rufai to commission Nigeria’s largest integrated animal feed mills, breeding farms and hatchery in Kaduna state.

The OLAM farms has a storage facility of 50,000 metric tonnes estimated to sell 72,000,000 eggs and 52,600,000 day old chicks.

it was gathered that the $150million project will employ 8,000 Nigerians through direct and indirect labor and 200 veterinary doctors.

See photos of the project below:

Nigeria's largest integrated animal feed mills, breeding farm and hatchery Photo credit: Twitter, Ólakúnlé Sómóyè

President Buhari will join Kaduna state governor to commission the $150million Olam Integrated Feed Mill and Poultry Photo credit: Twitter, Ólakúnlé Sómóyè

The OLAM Farms has a storage facility of 50,000 metric tonnes Photo credit: Twitter, Ólakúnlé Sómóyè

The poultry is the largest of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa Photo credit: Twitter, Ólakúnlé Sómóyè

It was  previously reported that the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI) is set to deliver 4 million bags of 50kg Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium (NPK) fertilizer to farmers, at an affordable price, before the end of 2017.

In a statement released by Attah Esah, the deputy director (Information), State House on Sunday, September 10, Mallam Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, disclosed the news at an audience participation programme on FRCN Kaduna.

Shehu also said that the 11 fertilizer blending plants in the country will be increased to 18 by the end of the year; which will, in turn, provide direct employment to no fewer than 50,000 Nigerians.