The Managing Director of NATIONWIDE AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION COMPANY OF NIGERIA LTD (NAMCON) and Nationwide President of NAMCON GROUP whereas talking with Sotayo Newsthumb writer acknowledged that NAMCON was Established to rebrand Agriculture, with a view to creating job alternatives, alleviate poverty, promote meals safety and sustainable {Economic} progress and improvement of Nigeria. Dr Abdulkadir acknowledged that NAMCON undertaking is strategically structured to aid the Federal authorities of the burden of funding Agriculture and promote enhance personal sector funding in your complete Agriculture worth chain.
Dr. Abdulkadir emphasised that no sector of Nigeria has the capability to create job and interact the youths just like the Agricultural sector. NAMCON undertaking has the capability to have interaction 15 million youths in 5years throughout Nigeria, Says Dr. Abdulkadir.
The managing Director and Chief Govt Officer of Nationwide Agricultural Mechanisation Firm of Nigeria (NAMCON), Dr. Aminu Abdulkadir, together with a Board member, Engineer Ibraheem Mustapha, the administration of NAMCON revealed the plan for the creation of 528 Mechanized Agricultural facilities throughout Nigeria.
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WHAT MOTIVATED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NAMCON AT THIS PERIOD IN THE NATION?
I’d say NAMCON is a toddler of necessity, created after 15 years of intensive analysis and survey of the agricultural sector with completely different specialists from varied models within the business. We studied and reviewed previous Agricultural tasks each private and non-private Agricultural tasks and their challenges from 1980 until date. To resolve these quite a few challenges NAMCON was created to unlock the big potential of the sector and supply complete agricultural answer to rural farmers who represent over 80% of the farming inhabitants of Niigeria. We took into cognizance the necessity to cut back authorities funding of Agriculture and make it enticing to non-public traders.
Now we have 5 distinctive tasks code named NAMCON SUPER 5 PROJECTS. The undertaking contains:
1. Nigeria mechanized Agro extension service undertaking.
2. Nationwide Livestock Growth Venture.
3. Ladies Nurturing Birds for Wealth Venture.
4. Nigeria Agro Market Area.
5. Farmers Housing Venture
NAMCON SUPER 5 PROJECTS are strategically structured to offer complete agro answer by way of the 528 facilities throughout Nigeria.Folks go to hospitals when they’re sick, and when their rights are trampled on, they go to courtroom to hunt redress. However the place do farmers go for assist? Challenges equivalent to these led to the institution of NAMCON, the place farmers may have entry to mechanized agricultural consultancy companies, technical assist, provide of inputs equivalent to improved seedlings, herbicides, natural fertilizer and storage amenities.
For a number of years, the federal government has funded the agricultural sector, but lower than 30% of our precise capability has been utilized. NAMCON has 1400 major Cooperatives, 284 Union Cooperatives and 32 State Apex Cooperative Societies. To maximise the total potential of the sector, NAMCON will create NAMCON facilities in 528 Native Authorities Areas out of 774 native authorities councils, with these facilities domiciled predominantly in rural areas for farmers. Farmers in these areas don’t want to attend for the federal government however can go to the facilities and entry all of the mechanized extension companies and inputs.
Simply as docs diagnose sufferers to prescribe medicine, these facilities will attend to farmers’ challenges—from soil preparation to seedlings. At harvest time, farm produce is shared in a 60/40 ratio: 60% goes to the farmers, whereas 40% covers administrative prices for the companions. We need to make sure that farmers get premium worth from their farming actions.
With this, the yearly battle to purchase fertilizers shall be eradicated. Younger folks, particularly those that couldn’t safe white-collar jobs, shall be interested in farming, and their academic upliftment will allow them to contribute to the financial system. The undertaking may even drive down the price of dwelling, complementing the efforts of His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu President and commander in chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
We strongly imagine that this agricultural undertaking alone can generate at the very least 15 million jobs inside the subsequent three years. It’s not rocket science—agriculture is the most important and greatest sector that may take in the labor pressure, contributing extra to the nation than oil and fuel, ICT, telecommunications, and tourism. Agriculture is huge, and it’s the silver bullet that may deal with unemployment, rural-urban migration, poverty, and insecurity in our nation.
With our collaboration with the federal authorities, this undertaking will carry important sustainable improvement to Nigeria.
You talked about bringing tractors to the nation and supplying farmers with inputs. How do you plan to fund this and recoup your funding?
