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.

Michael Nzekwe     Oluranti Idowu     Igbaja     UITH     Gurei     BIR     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Bibire Ajape     Kwara Pdp     Dasuki Belgore     Bahago     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Ado Bayero     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Bolakale Kawu     Lai Mohammed     Sai Kayi     Isiaka Gold     Makama Of Kaiama     Doyin Awoyale     ASMAU PLAZA     SSA Youth     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Wahab Isa     Kale Bayero     2017 Budget     Babatunde Idiagbon     Sam Okaula     ITP     Riskat Opakunle     Gani Saadu     Olatunji Moronfoye     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Femi Agbaje     Aminat Omodara     Muhammad-Mustapha Suleiman     Olokoba     Aliyu Sabi     Busari Alabi Alausa     Otoge     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     YAKOOYO     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     SAPZ Project     Raji AbdulRasaq     Abdulwahab Oba     Rotimi Oyedepo     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Olatunji Bamgbola     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     A.O. Belgore     Lola Olabayo     Timothy Akangbe     Agor     James Kolo     Council Of The Wise     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Suwa-Arabs     Post Utme     Wole Oke     Kwara Consultative Forum     Islamic Development Bank     Alabere     Tafida Of Kaiama     Saraki     NIRSAL     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Raliat AbdulRazaq     Salihu S. Yaru     Oke-Ero     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Post-utme     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Vasolar     Jamiu Oyawoye     Babaloja-General     Olusegun Adeniyi     Congress For National Consensus     Ahman Pategi     Iqra Books     Ajeigbe     Abraham Ojo     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     T And K FOODS     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Tunde Saad     Oniwa     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Shuaib Jawondo     Suleiman Mora Omar     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     College Of Education     Share/Tsaragi     Baba Idris     Haliru Yahaya     Kayode Yusuf     Ibrahim Labaika     Abdullahi Samari     Ishaq Salman     Bayo Lawal     Abatemi-Usman     Wasiu Odewale     Ijagbo Health Centre     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     V.O. Abioye     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Biliaminu Aliu     Kubra Kazum     Asa     Ajasse-Ipo     Baruba     Kayode Alabi     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Saad Omo Iya     Saka Adeyemo     Aso Ofi     Royal FM     Babaita     James Ayeni     Suleiman Idris     Sobi Specialist Hospital     KWACOBPA     Quarry Royal Valley     Just Law Forum     Awwal Jawondo     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Public Holiday     Ishola Abdullahi     Kwara Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Obayomi Azeez     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Adamu Attah     Quareeb     Saba Jibril     Otuka     Tescom.kwarastate.gov.ng     All Peoples Party     Ogbondoroko     Buari Edun     Sabi     Col. Adedipe     Sarakite     Bisi Kristien     Kayode Zubair     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Mohammed Abduraheem     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Jimoh Bashir