Enugu state Agric commissioner insist on private sector driven tractorization

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The Agric Commissioner, Enugu state, Engr M.C.C Eneh has said it would be very retrogressive to bring the old system of inputs distribution through government procurement in the face of fighting corruption just as Hon. Munir Babba Dungundi suggested the need for Growth Enhancement Support (GES) law for effective operation thereby having a different position from Kaduna state commissioner, Dr. Manzo Daniel Maigari who wanted the programme decentralized.

 

Speaking on this issue, Engr. Eneh said that the involvement of the private sector in the tractorization process has assisted in the resurrection of many of the abandoned tractors which are given to private people at the local government levels saying the exercise was able to save a lot of wastage's, pointed that Kwara state did thesame without any problem.

The Enugu state agric commissioner said that FG has no right to buy tractors and not state should be involved in buying also together with any inputs thereby reverting to the old corrupt system adding that his state has used Private Public Partnership (PPP) to make the tractorization work effectively pointed pineapple exportation would soon start in the state as about 100 hectares of irrigation land for farming were already made available for farmers.

However, the representative of the House of Assembly, Hon. Munir, Babba Dangundi pointed the need to back the use of GES with a legislative act that would empower it to be more effective just as National Seeds Council should be more empowered to work effectively.