The All Farmers Association of Nigeria
(AFAN), Edo chapter, has called on the state government to provide
tractors, bulldozers, graders and other farm implements for farmers
in the state to hire.
The state Chairman of AFAN, Chief
Emmanuel Odigie, made the call in an interview with the News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Sunday.
Odigie said the association was willing
to pay an agreed amount to the state government on a monthly basis
for the use of the equipment if provided.
He said “the idea is to enable our
members to hire them at affordable rates to prepare farmlands and
construct roads leading to the farms.
”Our investigation revealed that farm
produce waste away in the farms due to inaccessible and deplorable
state of our farm roads.
“If the roads were graded, farmers
would evacuate their produce and avoid the waste,” he said.
The chairman further said that the lack
of the equipment and irrigation, as well as poor state of roads posed
very serious challenge to farmers in the state.
Odigie explained that the use of the
equipment would promote large scale farming and make farming easier
in the state.
He however commended the efforts the
state and Federal Governments toward improving agriculture through
various programmes.
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