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The Lower
chambers of the National Assembly led by Hon.YakubuDogara has passed the second reading of a bill
asking for a new Act to empower National
Agricultural Mechanization Centre (NCAM) to effectively perform its function
through funding to researching into simple agricultural tools that will reduce
drudgery in the farm.
Moving the
motion, Hon Engr. Abdullahi Umar Farouk, representing BirinKebbi –Gardumawa
said the amendment of the bill into a new act for NCAM would enhance the
agricultural commercialization of President MohammuduBuhari and poverty
eradication saying the new act is meant to allow the Institute to perform optimally
in providing simple affordable tools for farming.
Hon. Umar farouk
further argued that the new act would hasten agricultural growth with provision
of friendly environment for the private sector in the mechanization process
tools provision thereby stressing the
for more funding for the centre.
He said in his words while moving the motion
that “Mr. Speaker this act was initially promulgated by the military decree of
No 25 of 1990, and further adopted by an act of the parliament in 2004. The
amendment of this will provide for acceleration of agricultural mechanization
through promotion, expansion, manufacture of indigenous farm tools equipment
for private sector participation in agriculture mechanization and rurual
technology and the need for funding the centre for further major matters. In
deed the issue of agricultural revolution in Nigeria today is a national
challenge that must be addressed by this bill and issue of poverty.
That is why
the existing act and the decree was critically examined for better
repositioning for proactive act that will serve the purpose of the intended
agricultural revolution of the current administration of President
MohammuduBuhari. Hon collegues, by mechanization, we are going to have chains
of production that will reduce drudgery and fatigue and human labour with quick
service delivery”
Hon.
Farouk lamented on the incapacity state
of NCAM presently saying “ currently
NCAM has not performed veritably well as it shold be as one of the reasons is
because the Act guilding them is not proactive to make it so and this has to be
corrected in order to get them in line of the international practice.”
Supporting the
motion Hon. EngrSolomomMaren from Mangu Constituency in Plateau state said that
the new act would promote private sector partication, commercial agriculture
and research development of mechanized system and more funding for the Centre ”
we have touch some few sections of the bill, we have mended section 2, 8, 9,io,
15.
All these sections stand to improve the present mechanization of our
traditional agriculture towards reducing so much man power in farming. Also the
section 15 of the bill wishes to achieve a special funding for the centre more
performance in area of research commercialization. I wish the Honourable
members support this bill passes through the second reading so that 70% of
Nigerians who are farmers will benefit from it”
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