The North East Commodity Association
(NECAS) has flagged off distribution of 600 units tractors to its members at
its headquarters in Yola with Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri lauded the
programme and assured NECAS Adamawa State partnership.
At NECAS Mechanization Service Centre along
Numan Road, Governor Fintiri who unveiled the distribution of the farm
machineries said Adamawa State will venture into fulltime agricultural
production as it is another way that will fill the gap in the internally
generated revenue and make Adamawa an agricultural commercial state.
Governor Fintiri assured NECAS that Adamawa
will continue to collaborate and partner with it and give it the necessary
support it deserve, calling on Adamawa farmers to form associations and
clusters and register so as to benefit from the Anchor Borrowers programme
which NECAS has keyed into.
The Governor further promised his administration
readiness to support not only farmer who cultivate land but also those who will
be engaged in animal husbandry.
He called on the Adamawa beneficiaries of
the tractors to utilise it, make use of it judiciously and maintain it.
Earlier in his welcoming address, the
Chairman NECAS, Alhaji Sadiq Dawre said the association has procured 600 brand
new tractors through the Anchor Borrowers programme initiated by the Federal
Government of Nigeria with the Central Bank as the financier and thanked the
Federal Government for the initiative.
Alhaji Daware lamented also that NECAS supply
certified seeds, quality fertilizers and services to farmers. Adding that the
NECAS has signed a memorandum of understanding with John Deeree Company who
supplied them with 600 brand new tractors which will be deployed to the 6 North
East States with Adamawa getting 150 because it has the highest number of
famers registered with NECAS.
On his part, the Country Director John
Deeree said his company is presently training 1,200 farmers in maintenance of
tractors and it will establish a centre for training in Yola where it will be
monitoring its scheduled trainings.
In a
goodwill massage on behalf of the Royal Fathers of Adamawa, the Lamido of
Adamawa, Alhaji Dr. Barkindo Aliyu Musdafa appreciated NECAS for chosen Adamawa
State to be its headquarters and lauded its programme and the Federal
Government’s Anchor Borrowers programme, describing them beneficial to farmers.
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