Nigeria partners Japan to assemble tractors

Date: 2021-05-24

Federal Government may have concluded plans that would make Nigeria a ground for the assemblage of some relevant Japanese agricultural technologies.

The development, which may be feasible before the end of this year, is expected to make light and heavy agric equipment affordable and accessible to more Nigerian farmers.

Accordingly, all the relevant agric parastatals have been placed on red alert to brace up for the partnership between the two nations, as many of their campuses are being penciled down for the take off of the project.

The Executive Director, National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM) Ilorin, Dr Yomi Kasali, made these disclosures, yesterday, at the opening ceremony of an intensive two-week training for operators and repairers of tractors across the nation's 36 states' ministries of agriculture.

"We have the mandate to be in Abuja very soon, where we have been reliably informed of the proposed needs by Nigerian government to collaborate with the Japanese government to start assembling their agric machinery here in Nigeria. The cost of foreign labour is removed and substituted with local labour. This will automatically lead to a drastic drop in the price of tractors in Nigeria.

"Our personnel are ready for the new challenge. Even before now, we fabricate new mini-tractors for the use of both rich and average Nigerian farmers at affordable prices. This is in addition to other numerous machines we fabricate and manufacture here.

This new collaboration will no doubt make affordable and accessible tractors in Nigeria," Kasali said.

NCAM, the only one of its kind in the Sub-Saharan Africa may form a leading Channel to be chosen by the Federal government to collaborate with the Japanese government in this endeavour.

The proposed collaboration is christened 'Africa Field Innovation Centre for Agricultural Technologies' (AFICAT).

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Olusegun Adeniyi     Igbaja     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Danladi     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Ayinde Oyepitan     Rashidi Yekini     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Adebara     Alaiye     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Jawondo     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Kwara State Fire Service     Muhammed Danjuma     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     The Herald     Ado Ibrahim     Tanke Road     Idowu Laro     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Ilofa     Offa     Toyin Abdullahi     Kwara State Sports Commission     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Oko-Erin     Monkey Pox     Alabere     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Mogaji Aare     Moro     Umar Gunu     Kwha.gov.ng     Ilorin Like-Minds     Olatunji Bamgbola     Musa Abdullahi     Matthew Babaoye     Basit Olatunji     Abdulmutalib Shittu     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Aminat Ahmed     Charcoal     Computer Based Test     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Sabitiyu Grillo     Sherif Shagaya     Samuel Adaramola     Student Learning Support Helpline     Olufolake Abdulrazaq     Osinbajo     Yakub Lai Gobir     Lotus Bank     Idris Garuba     Sheikh Alimi     PharmAccess Foundation     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Budo Egba     Kayode Laro     TIIDELab     Bilikis Oladimeji     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Owu Fall     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Yemi Sanni     Hassan Taiye Salam     Najim Yaasin     Ndama Al-hassan     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Omotoso     Ishaq Oloyede     Oyedun Juliana Funke    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Folaranmi Aro     Kayode Ogunlowo     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Saka Adeyemo     Ilorin Talaka Parapo (ITP)     Saka Keji     Bisi Oyeleke     Elelu     Emir Of Yashikira     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Omu-aran     Al-Hikmah University     Joseph Offorjama     Mustapha Akanbi     Abraysports FC     Busari Toyin Isiaka     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Lawal Olohungbebe     Rachael Obisesan     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Adisa Logun     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Kwara Politics     Hijab     Oloye     Ado Ibrahim     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Moses Afolayan     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Toyosi Thomas     Charles Ibitoye     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Jide Oyinloye     Na\'Allah     Saraki     Bilikisu Gambari     Dasuki Belgore     Muslim Cementary     Rebecca Bake     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Alikinla     AbdulRahman Saad     Tosho Yaqub     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Kayode Alabi     Arandun     Amos Justus Sayo     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Titus Ashaolu     National Information Technology Development Agency     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     Babaloja-General     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Hauwa Nuru     Mopelola Abdulmaliq-Bashir     Tunji Oyawoye     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Innocent Okoye     Post-utme     Wahab Egbewole     SSA Youth Engagement     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Muhammadu Buhari     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Tunji Olawuyi     Bilikis Oladimeji