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Plateau government to take loan from African Development Bank to boost agriculture

By on April 24, 2013

In its efforts towards transforming the Agricultural sector, the Plateau State Government said it would take a loan from African Development Bank,ADB, to enhance its agriculture yield in the State.

Governor Jonah Jang disclosed this yesterday at the Agricultural Training and Services Centre ,ASTC, Shendam, while on an inspection visit of ongoing projects in the State.

According to him, “we intend to talk with the Central Bank or the ADB to see that we get a loan in order to bring more facilities to meet the needs of farmers at their various locations.”

He stated that the three ASTCs located in Kassa, Mangu and Shendam were ready for farmers use, noting that outposts would also be built in order to reach out to farmers that were far away from the centres.

“I was told that because of the pressure from interested farmers, we need to increase the number of tractors every year. And by this
farming season, we would be having 100 tractors in each of the centres’’.

Jang further said that there were already many facilities available at the ASTCs for farmers in Plateau, urging them to make the best use of the available opportunities.

The Governor, however, warned that no equipment at the centres would be given to famers on hire.

“Let me emphasize one thing, we will not give any individual tractor or any equipment on hire, we discovered that all tractors bought by former governments have disappeared because they give them out on hire.

“Nothing would disappear this time because the operators are staff, workshops are there to service the machines at the centres and there is a total overhauling of the workshop in Kassa”. He said.