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.

Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Harmony Holdings     Ibrahim Abikan     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Abubakar Atiku     Millennium Development Goals     Iyaloja-General     Ajibike Katibi     Magaji Nda     Oke-Kura     Babata     Vasolar Consortium     University Road     Yahya Mohammed     Bareke     Lanre Issa Onilu     Doyin Agbamu     NAWOJ     Innocent Okoye     NIPOGA     Najim Yaasin     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Gwanara     Sun Qing Rong     Gbenga Olawepo     Salake     Sanitation Exercise     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Adeleke Ogungbe     Aishat Mohammed Lawal     Ahman Pategi University     Oyawoye     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Joseph Offorjama     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Chief Of Staff     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Kunle Okeowo     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Moses Rahman Popoola     Mamatu Abdullahi     Adijat Adebiyi     Odolaye Aremu     Magaji Are     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Diagnostic Centre     Kale Belgore     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Kwara United     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Kunbi Titiloye     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Tunji Arosanyin     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Vasolar Consultoria     Oloye     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Adaramaja     EFCC     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Shuaib Olarongbe     Alaaya     Afetu Of Alabe     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Kehinde Baale     International Aviation College     Kunle Suleiman     Babajide Ajayi     Ile Arugbo     Kwara State Governor     Haleeman Salman     Suleman Abubakar    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Tunji Olawuyi     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Emmanuel Bello     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Hijab     Senate     Pategi     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Baaziki Sulaiman     NURTW     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Oni Adebayo     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Prince Mahe Abdulkadir     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Aliyu Salihu     Iyaloja-General     AGF Abdulrazaq     Democracy Day     Dorcas Afeniforo     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Mogaji Aare     Just Law Forum     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Adegoke Bamidele     Jumoke Gafar     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Afolayan     Isiaq Khadeejah     Baba Issa     Fareedah Dankaka     NNPP     Saba Mamman Daniel     Adeola Abraham     Aisha Buhari     Aremu Odolaye     A.E. Afolabi     Salary     Roheemat Hammed     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Labour Party     Odolaye Aremu     Abdulfatai Salman Baakini     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Timothy Akangbe     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Ayobami Seriki     Kwara Restoration Project     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Tunde Kazeem     Zaratu Umar     Alaaya     Tosho Yaqub     Mope Dasuki Belgore     KWASEIC     Olushola Saraki     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Budo Egba     Kwara State Government     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Alaro     Iyabo Adewuyi     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Tunji Arosanyin     Samuel Adaramola     Monthly Sanitation     Bukola Saraki     NSCIA     Kwara State Sports Commission     Oluranti Idowu     IYA YUSUF