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April 08, 2025

Solar Cold Storage Empowers Agrovet Dealer to Strengthen Last-Mile Poultry/Livestock Vaccine Supply

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Solar Cold Storage Empowers Agrovet Dealer to Strengthen Last-Mile Poultry/Livestock Vaccine Supply

Nigeria’s power sector faces significant challenges, including insufficient power generation and unreliable transmission and distribution networks. Rural areas are the most affected, often going days, weeks, or months without electricity due to frequent power outages. This hinders economic growth and development. But in 2024, Tropical Poultry Services Limited received a matching grant fund from Propcom+ under the Climate-smart Agriculture Grant Facility to set up two (2) solar-powered vaccine distribution hubs and distribute SDD freezers to nine (9) Agrovet dealers across Kano and Jigawa States to enable the distribution of appropriately sized, well-suited vaccines to smallholder poultry farmers at the last mile.

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