The Federal Government has signed an agreement with some Brazilian firms to establish tractors’ assembly plants in Nigeria. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja.
He said the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, with the support of the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had secured funding from the Islamic Bank to accelerate the process.
Adamu, who was a two-term governor of Nasarawa State, added that the plan was aimed at allocating at least 10 tractors to each of the 774 local government areas of the country. He also said that a service centre would be established in all the council areas where young people would be trained on how to handle the tractors and how to carry out some basic maintenance on the equipment.
He said, “Because of the commitment of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to boost food production through agriculture, the Federal Ministry of agriculture has come up with a programme to make tractors available to all farmers in Nigeria.
