The Minister, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security ( FMAFS) Sen. Abubakar Kyari has advised on more organized clusters' farming and cooperatives towards creating more accessibility of tractors to farming and food security.
Sen. Abubakar Kyari pointed out this in a press statement that tractors availability to farmers would be more feasible when farmers are contributing towards having one in an organized farming cluster or cooperative promised that Government would effectively ensure mechanization in an organized manner with provision of enabling environment.
The Minister said in the statement while receiving in an audience representatives from John Deere, led by Mr.Jason Braintley that farmers must embrace clusters or cooperatives model so as to be able to have easy access to mechanization through instalmental repayment within a year.
He promised the visitors that government would provide an enabling environment for easy marketing of tractors through farmers in cooperatives or clusters farming adding that government would not be able to off take the tractors.
The State Minister, FMAFS, Sen. Aliyu Abudullahi in the statement stressed that existing cooperatives must be evaluated to ascertain those that actually need tractors' support adding also that crops most suitable for mechanization must be identified.
The statement noted that the visit was a follow-up to the meeting between Nigeria’s Vice President, Ibrahim Shettima and top officials of John Deere at the recent World Food Prize Foundation held in lowa, USA.
Certainly this is a very correct approach to settle one major impiedements of agriculture in nigeria.mechanisation three major components 1 tractor + impliments. 2 combine harvesters and planters. Provision of these equipment will ease farming and result to higher yeild,more profit to farmers and will bring down cost of production down,there by reduce prices of food stuffs.Then NALDA should merssively expand irrigatable farms to reduce cost of water management to farmers also reduce risk of flooding because farmers will stop planting in risky areas around waterbeds FADAMA. Again find ways to subsidise cost of fertilizer we can became self sufficient and start export.
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