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The Executive Director of National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation (NCAM) Ilorin, Kwara State, Dr. Yomi Kasali has identified poorly trained tractors’ operators as reasons for short life span of many agricultural machinery in the country.
Kasali, represented by one of the directors of NCAM, Dr. Segun Ademiluyi, at the training on Capacity Building of Tractors Operators and Maintenance of Equipment, in Ilorin, said, life span of tractors outside Nigeria is 50 years, lamenting that same tractors only last five years in Nigeria.
He spoke during the closing ceremony of over 100 tractors’ operators across Nigeria, trained by the NCAM. The event was jointly bankrolled by the institute and Tractors’ Owners and Hiring Facilities Association of Nigeria (TOHFAN).