Innovative Mini-Tractor Revolutionizes Nigerian Agriculture: NCAM's Breakthrough Design
According to a news report from The Guardian, the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM) in Ilorin, Kwara State, has successfully designed a mini-tractor capable of performing all the functions of conventional tractors.
In an interview with The Guardian, AbdulGafar Kamaldeen, the Executive Director of the institute, highlighted the cost-effectiveness of the mini tractor. He emphasized that this innovation aims to address the existing gap in tractor availability within Nigeria's agricultural sector.
Furthermore, the centre intends to provide a sufficient number of mini tractors to serve all council areas across the federation. This strategic move is expected to enhance Nigeria's food production capacity and contribute positively to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country.
Kamaldeen said: “The mini tractor is the product of the ingenuity of our staff. It performs every function that the conventional tractor performs. With more facilities, we can rise to the challenges of manufacturing for each of the LGAs in the country. Indeed, Nigeria is blessed with resources and personnel of high qualities.”
The Executive Director added that the centre developed mini tractors while considering the financial constraints posed by the price and size of a conventional tractor on farmers, especially, small and medium scale farmers.
The mini tractors are three and four-wheeled, designed to perform similar operations as a conventional tractor but on a smaller scale. It has been tested in various agro-ecological zones of the country.
The centre, according to Kamaldeen, has equally built the NCAM multi-crop thresher, which is a compact thresher with a multi-crop potential, aimed at increasing threshing efficiency and eliminating diced associated with the traditional method of threshing with stick. The machine has the capacity to thresh rice, sorghum, maize and cowpea.
While regretting the low patronage towards the institutes' machineries, he urged agric experts, states and local councils to use more of the institute's manufactured and fabricated facilities.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Alapansapa 08001000100 Aiyedun Gbajabiamila Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla Zubair Folorunsho Erubu Umaru Saro Adewuyi Funmilayo Olawuyi Muazam Nayaya Maimunat Oloriegbe Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen Salihu Ajibola Ajia ASKOMP Ilorin Airport Iqra Books Kumbi Titiloye Ambassador Kayode Laro Kehinde Boyede Hassan A. Saliu Kwara Restoration Project Akume Maryam Nurudeen PharmAccess Foundation Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum Bashir Adigun Mohammed Ibrahim Abubakar Baba Danhawa Gbugbu International Market JAMB Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence Bayo Mohammed Onimode Sunday Popo-Ola Adamu Jemilat-Baki Busari Toyin Isiaka Isiaka Abdulrazak Oloruntoyosi Thomas Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari Kanu Agabi School Of Nursing Saliu Ajia Isaac Gbenle NIRSAL Mohammed Yisa Abraham Ojo Gobir Razaq Ayobami Akanbi Oloye Suleiman Alege Kuranga Pategi Alabi Lawal UNIFEMGA Lateef Alagbonsi Idi-Ape Abdulmumini Jawondo Mahmud Babatunde Baker Mazars Consulting Aminu Adisa Logun Olusegun Adeniyi Baba Adini Of Kwara State Kubra Kazum Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development Bashiru Makama Kamaldeen Ajibade Risikat Lawal Waziri Yakubu Gobir Computer Based Test Playing Host Oke-Oyi Awili Pedro Wahab Issa Ishak Mohammed Sabi Saidu Isa JSSCE

