Tinubu launches Nigeria’s largest farm mechanization with 9,022 tools.
Ruth Tene _June 23,2025
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday, June 23, 2025 commissioned Nigeria’s Largest Agricultural Mechanization Program, a landmark initiative aimed at boosting food production and food security in Nigeria.
The program includes the distribution of 9,022 units of equipment, including tractors, ploughs, harvesters, and other farming implements.
Speaking at the launch, tagged ‘Official Launching of Tractors and Agricultural Equipment under the Renewed Hope Agricultural Mechanisation Programme’ in Abuja, President Tinubu said, “We envision Nigeria as a global agricultural powerhouse. Supplying quality produce to international markets while ensuring every citizen has access to affordable nutrition,”
“We are very proud of what we are doing. And the promise when we came in, we are fulfilling that promise, “he added
The President as, “This government recognises that agricultural productivity is synonymous with national stability and food sovereignty. The ability to nourish our population from the bedrock of a prosperous nation.
“Our ambition extends beyond mere sense of necessity. We envision Nigeria as a global agricultural powerhouse. Supplying quality produce to international markets while ensuring every citizen has access to affordable nutrition”
“We are very proud of what we are doing. And the promise when we came in, we are fulfilling that promise, “he added
The President as, “This government recognises that agricultural productivity is synonymous with national stability and food sovereignty. The ability to nourish our population from the bedrock of a prosperous nation.
“Our ambition extends beyond mere sense of necessity. We envision Nigeria as a global agricultural powerhouse. Supplying quality produce to international markets while ensuring every citizen has access to affordable nutrition”
“That’s why we took a bold decision to establish this Global Agricultural Mechanization Program. We are just beginning. All that is indicative in addition to whatever they have at the sub-national level as governors”.
President Tinubu assured that the equipment will generate over 2,000 agricultural jobs, provide 15 industrial grid land preparation producers, 12 fully equipped mobile workshops, as well as 9,000-plus specialised farming implements. This equipment will be deployed to empower mechanisation and service providers”
He emphasised the importance of deploying the equipment with maximum efficiency and holding stakeholders accountable.
He said the launch of the Global Agricultural Mechanisation Program marks a significant milestone in Nigeria’s agricultural development and is expected to have a positive impact on the country’s food security and economy.
“Let history recall this day as the beginning of Nigeria’s agricultural renewal. Where modern technology made our farmers legendary resilience to a great unprecedented prosperity.”
He noted that the program is a result of a partnership between the Nigerian government and APRE BNCC, a global leader in agricultural technology and machinery trade aimed at empowering Nigerian youths and promoting agricultural mechanization in the country” he said .
In his remarks, Senator Abubakar Kyari, Minister, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS),s aid the program is a bold affirmation of the
The government’s commitment to agriculture as a key driver of economic growth and development.
“Today’s event is not just a program for us. It is a landmark milestone in Nigeria’s agricultural transformation agenda,” Kyari said.
“The program is expected to create over 550,000 hectares of farmland under cultivation, generate more than 2 million metric tons of stable food, create over 16,000 jobs, and directly benefit more than 560,000 migrant households across all six geophysical zones.”
According to Kyari, the program includes 2,000 high-quality tractors, trailers, ploughs, hollows, sprayers, and planters, as well as 10 sets of the highest 330-horsepower combined harvesters. “We have over 9,000 computer-generated equipment and 9,000 sets of spare parts,” he added.
Also speaking, Victor Karankevich, deputy prime minister, Republic of Belarus, expressed joy at the bilateral relations between Nigeria and Belarus.
He said Belarus has a long history of producing Agricultural equipment and has supplied the same to over 100 countries.
Noting that the programme was in its first phase, he stressed the need for further collaborations and implementation for the second phase.
He added that the phases will include the assemblage of service centers, assembly plant, training of farmers on the use of the various equipment and mechanization.
Businessday recalls that the Federal Executive Council, FEC, in August 2024 approved the agreement between the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Government of the Republic of Belarus for 2024 – 2029 which entailed the delivery of 9022 units of various agricultural machinery and equipment, as well as the spare parts, from the Republic of Belarus.
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