Mechanisation

Others suffered at the hands of mechanisation.

The guest speaker was area based cereal grower, Mr Iain McMordie, who described his experience in controlling his mechanisation costs by his choice and use of farm machinery for combinable crops husbandry.

The MOU will focus on vital areas such as bio-fortification of agricultural produce, improvement of agricultural seeds and seedlings, agricultural mechanisation, cutting-edge technologies for increased yields, and the reduction of post-harvest losses.

He noted that while the industry continues to experience labour shortages, emphasis is now being placed on mechanisation.

Niger State Governor Umar Bago disclosed this after a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security in Abuja ahead of the commissioning of the mechanisation program by the President in the state.

Tinubu gave this assurance when he flagged off the Food Security and Agricultural Mechanisation Programme in Niger State, on Monday.

Amplats has been on a roll of late, reaping the benefit of a profitable pivot to mechanisation and higher prices to produce big profits and hefty dividends.

Nanono said that the planned mechanisation of agriculture would span across 632 local governments.

Obasanjo and Desalegn Boshe are telling us via their paper that this investment, capitalisation and mechanisation has not yet been carried out.

That said, no less than 100,000 youths are to benefit directly from the Federal Government’s $1.1bn agriculture mechanisation scheme known as the Green Imperative Programme.

The insights from the 87 villages revealed the great transformative power of agricultural mechanisation.

The integration will bring a higher level of mechanisation, which is currently at 40% and lower than China’s (60%), Brazil’s (75%), and the US’s (95%).

While output prices continue to show high variation with frequent spells of low prices, increasing mechanisation and monetisation have led to an increase in cash requirement.

Zambeef has also supported government’s proposal to scale up agricultural productivity through mechanisation, as Minister of Finance proposed to zero-rate all tractors for Value-Added Tax purposes.

Muslims have traditionally been craftsmen, and most craft skills have been overtaken by mechanisation rendering the skills of most craftsmen obsolete under the prevailing political economy.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has on behalf of the Government of Ghana (GoG) presented agricultural equipment to the Agricultural Mechanisation Centre at Wulensi, in the Northern Region.

This entails the adoption of digital agriculture in precision farming with the help of big data and improvement of mechanisation.

My Government will, in the next five years accelerate industrialisation, modernisation and mechanisation, with greater emphasis on market driven policies.

Poor mechanisation and lack of technical expertise have been cited as some of the hindrances to the growth of the small-scale mining sector.

The Malabo Montpellier Panel recommends a substantially increased policy attention and investment in advancing mechanisation of agricultural value chains to deliver on the targets set out by the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the Malabo Declaration.