FG trains 4,000 operators for 2,000 tractors

From Okwe Obi, Abuja
The Federal Government has begun the training of 4,000 operators months after purchasing 2,000 tractors.
The government, in partnership with AGCOMS International Trading Limited, National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF), and the Industrial Training Fund (ITF), explained that the exercise is to prepare the skilled workforce that will power one of the country’s most ambitious agricultural modernisation schemes.
Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Abubakar Kyari, noted that the first of 4,000 operators who would be trained nationwide to operate and maintain modern John Deere tractors and associated agricultural implements under the Federal Government’s m...