Enugu boosts mechanized farming with 27 tractors worth N79m
On June 26, 2011 · In News

By Tony Edike
ENUGU -  THE Enugu State government’s drive to boost its agricultural fortunes through mechanized farming got a massive push at the weekend with the arrival of a first batch of 27 brand new multi-purpose tractors.

Receiving the tractors at the old Government Lodge Enugu, Governor Sullivan Chime described their arrival as a major leap in the‘’ silent revolution’’ that has been going on in the agricultural sector in the state adding that it marked a new era in government’s efforts to end large scale manual farming in the state and make it a leader in the Agricultural sector.

He disclosed that the government had prepared the grounds for the immediate deployment of the tractors with the establishment of two world class farm settlements in Adani and Heneke in Uzo Uwani and Ezeagu local government areas respectively adding that the settlements and others were capable of supplying all of the state’s agricultural needs in grains, vegetables and tubers and creating over 3,000 new jobs each year.

He said, “Our dream of turning Enugu State into an agricultural paradise and making agriculture the pillar of its economy has taken root. We already have two world class farm settlements capable of supplying all our needs in Agriculture and creating jobs for our teeming youths.

Our multi-purpose, 4-wheel drive tractors have now started arriving and we are confident that very soon that those trucks which normally bring farm produce to Enugu state from other parts of the country will soon be heading in the opposite direction”.

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This Chime guy is definitely into something big and positive.

But, 27 tractors for 79 million? Sounds too cheap. Abi na China tractor?

This is the only performing Governor I know in Nigeria as far as am concerned

High_Chief:

This is the only performing Governor I know in Nigeria as far as am concerned

^^^ He's trying, but i wouldn't go as far as saying he's the ONLY performing Governor. Fashola, Oshiomole and Amaechi are trying as well, but they all need to have their feet 'held to the fire' as it were, so they don't slacken in performance but improve: there's still a lot to do.

As far as i'm concerned, the jury's still out on Peter Obi.

Yes not the only one - but definitely performing. Keep it up my able Governor.

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PROUD-IGBO:

^^^ He's trying, but i wouldn't go as far as saying he's the ONLY performing Governor. Fashola, Oshiomole and Amaechi are trying as well, but they all need to have their feet 'held to the fire' as it were, so they don't slacken in performance but improve: there's still a lot to do.

As far as i'm concerned, the jury's still out on Peter Obi.

Oshiomole should not be on that list, that man is a disappointment.

ZnO:

This Chime guy is definitely into something.

But, 27 tractors for 79 million? Sounds too cheap. Abi na China tractor?

^^^ I think the amount quoted -if true- just shows financial prudence. We're so used to hearing projects/schemes of billions (normally as a result of wuruwuru, like the second Abuja airport runway fiasco), that when we see an amount like 79 million, we think it's being done on the cheap. And when you check what's been done with the billions quoted, it's normally sub-standard with poor finishing. Examples abound, like the domestic terminal in Lagos: that terminal building is anything but cutting-edge and dynamic-looking .

The 79 million is just about half a million dollars, so it sounds plausible. Also, the government may have got some discount and concessions for buying in bulk.

High_Chief:

This is the only performing Governor I know in Nigeria as far as am concerned

Why would he not be your best? When Roundabout and flyovers are your standard for good governance in your gully erosion pervaded kidnapping den called ibo land? Some of you ibos just think the world start and ends in iboland. SMH

^^^This your obsession is really getting out of hand, why cant you stop thinking about Igbos while Mast.urb.ating. And I say it again, he is the ONLY performing Governor to me, albeit Rochas will also do well. So go hang yourself. Ode

@Zno, wheres the source to this fake story? Common!! You expect me to waste time reading that crap you posted up there? .

RICHIE BOI:

@Zno, wheres the source to this fake story? Common!! You expect me to waste time reading that crap you posted up there?  .     

Hahaha!! My dear German copy cat.
Guten Abend

Good

ZnO:

This Chime guy is definitely into something big and positive.

But, 27 tractors for 79 million? Sounds too cheap. Abi na China tractor?

Mr, how can u say tractor at that price is cheap?

Good news.
Thank God you want to enter into the hinter lands now. The last four years was almost spent in Enugu municipality alone. Please do more.

I heard shiri shiri that Igbonekwu Ogazimora is coming to join Enugu State Cabinet as SA. I hope this is not a miscalculation.

Jisie Ike nna a. Chukwu gozie gi.

Why would he not be your best? When Roundabout and flyovers are your standard for good governance in your gully erosion pervaded kidnapping den called ibo land? Some of you ibos just think the world start and ends in iboland. SMH

Excuse me! must you tribalise every post cos u r mgbati? pls get a life.

the poster may not have gone outside Enugu so he was speaking his mind.

when you loot them, just buy some old painted stuffs like tractors, invite press to tell the whole country, you will be fine. Nigerians cheap mentality.

Na today! 27 Tractors, abeg make dem comot from my front make I see road! Ask for those tractors in the next 3 months and they will have to "set up a committee" to answer that inquiry. Did I not go to the State ADP last farming season to hire a tractor for a project I was working on in Ugwogo Nike, wetin I hear, no tractor available despite say after paying for the hiring na me go bring money for diesel to power the tractor and "motivate the tractor operator", Tractors has been leased to farmers in the State bordering Enugu to the North (u dey waste ur time, if u dey wait make I type the name of State, proved to yourself that the Geography classes you took wasn't a waste of time ).

Forget Anambra own, went to their ADP office (along Enugu-Onitsha Road just b4 amawbia junction), kon see fine tractors, looking soooo fine, no pimples I enter office say I wan hire tractor for work in Achalla, dem say the tractors have not been commissioned (dem neva show am for TV as one of the laudable achievements of the Governor) yhey directed me to ASTRAC (Anambra State Tractor Company) whey dey for Igbariam (the place is 5mins drive away from Anambra State University). Dat place is better qualified as a scrap yard, If some of our igbo bros whey dey deal on scrap go there, dem go load plenty 40ft containers there Only 2 were functionable, one has been hired to someone in Abagana and 3 others were on the waiting list, the other has "some little problem" and if am in dire need of it "we can work out an arrangement" I ended up fixing the tractor with N32,000 for an exchange of 8 days use of it alongside personally fueling it, paying and feeding the operator and also not forgetting his snuff

THIS IS HOW NIGERIA IS REVOLUTIONIZING AGRICULTURE!

Bros u even see tractor hire and your complaining. What if there is no tractor nko?. This a good project. we need far more tractors and more investment in agricultural sub-sector. PPP may be seriously considered to manage the tractors

Thats something postive by my governor, ride on oga

fortunately,i am from the farm settlement area in uzouwani L.G.A and i can tell you that work is rapidly moving fast there. A commendable agric revolution program is going on in enugu state,under the directory of Dr. Olaedo,the agric commisioner. The government last year sent farmers on agric extension programmes to agric projects in some west african countries and they have been schemed into the program as extension officers. The adani farm settlement originally established by late micheal okpara has rice production capacity of supplying the whole of south east when fully utilised. The obasanjo exco gave a 1bn naira contract 4 renovation of d adarice farm project in may 2007,since then minimal work has been done,on d canals and dam situated there. Sulivan chime govt has seen a tremendous rehabilitation of the agric project,as seen in d staff quarters being rebuilt,electrification project,training of farmers,reform of the adarice company,and rebuilding of the roads which is in view according to the goveror himself. All these take a lot of time to gradually achieve.
I see enugu state agriculturally self sufficient by 2015 and even suppliying other southeastern states with basic food items. The days of reliance on the north and midbelt regions would soon be ova in enugu,courtesy my silent lowbudget achieving governor.
I had d prievilage of eating trial water melon seeds produced in the farms by the programe wen i went to the villa recently.
This is no magic,enugu is experiencing rapid development. I am a witness. May God fortify chime n broaden his vision to serve d people

Agriculture is one sector every state can invest in and make good money especially with the rising cost of food. it can also create employment big time.I don't know why they all wait for oil money.

@marocguy,

Did you get to visit the Adani rice project? What's the current level of work there? I was there sometime in 2009 (we were visiting some rice projects in Adani and took out to see the ruins of a Project that is capable of putting rice on millions of Nigerian's dining tables.

I saw huge scraps of Boilers, sorters, de-stoners dehullers etc littering the place, with 2 slippers wearing, roger-hunger policemen "protecting them". From the dams, scraps, hedges you will see shadows of billions spent there! Thousands of hectares of rice farmland (uzo uwani get land ooooooooooooooo) lying waste while Govt is busy calculating how much they would be making from importation of rice. Nigeria is a state that is lost from within

@faceurbook,i didnt visit there,my community,igga has almost 3/4 of the farmland the rice project is situated in.
My brother just as you saw it,the abandoned rice farm,equimments and infracstructure is a goldmine that is just neglected. I hope chime is the answer,though it requires the collaboration of federal n state govt to put the place to maximum production. The job potential is simply inestimable.
I have been working on getting private investor partnership but cos of little research about my area,its being proving futile.
The farm,irrigation,dam and infracstructure  was constructed by a japanese company for the federal govt sometym in the 1970's.
Wot purpose took you to my little known hinterland man??

we just have to carry on moving forward!!!

Dats good,
Keep it on governor.

Nigerians should learn that any commercial / economic enterprise that the FG or states embark on will be unsustainable and ultimately fail. Why do we fail to learn this after 50 years of failed state run enterprises.

The government has no business owning and running farms. They cannot do it and it WILL FAIL. They have always failed and will continue to fail at running enterprises. Farming should be strictly left to agri-businesses. The government should only support them with good policies.

It beats me why people are saying government should "invest" in agriculture? Since when did the government become a businessman? How many businesses have they run successfully and what is the ROI on their "investment"? What are the millions of Nigerians doing that they have to wait for the state to put food on their table?

In few years, all we will have from this tractors are scrap with billions down the drain!

@macroguy

I don waka ooooooo, actually we were headed to some rice farmlands in omasi (the first community in Anambra, when you enter it from Adani Enugu) because road bad to the place , na im we enter Adani to go round to re-enter Anambra through the back of the Adarice farm project to Olympic Farms belonging to late Magnate Sir Joe Nwankwo, which was equally set up by the Japanese in the 80's but worse off than the Adarice projects, as all frames and roofings of the warehouses and farmhouses has been vandalized by his first son and thieves, the offices and the warehouses can serve as a good location to shoot[b] the remake of Dracula[/b] The bats there are fearful

Fiofio, Okpa and Ose Nsukka is damn too cheap in your area

while this is good. i would love to hear 270 tractors pumped to enugu farmers so it can go round t all deserving farmers. A steyr tractor cost about 3.5 million. Maser fergurson costs much more while Indian made mahindra is cheapest, so for that price chime may have gotten good discounts or purchased directly

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