Ministry happy with private push to supply of tractors to villages

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By Moses Ferdinand, Sumbawanga
The Ministry of Agriculture said here yesterday it supports fully efforts by a private company --- Agricom Africa Limited --- to supply tractors to villagers through their cooperative societies.
Speaking during the training of Kalambo District villagers and cooperative leaders here in the use of tractors and other implements, Senior Farm Tools Officer, Mr Godwin Mubi, explained that the ministry admired the efforts of the private company because they sought to transform farming at the grassroots level and improve lives of smallholder farmers.
“Agricom Africa is one of the stakeholders who support the efforts of the ministry and the government as a whole in implementing the Agriculture Sector Development Programme, Phase II by making sure modern farm tools reach farmers in order to transform the sector,” he said, adding that the ministry valued the efforts of the company towards taking farm implements to all corners of Tanzania.  More than 17 tractors would be distributed to Rukwa Region villages next month.
Mr Mubi said the current efforts of the Agricom Africa towards modernizing farming  would be fully appreciated by first understanding that  most of the peasants do not attach due importance modern farm implements, hence recurrent  insufficient harvests. Tanzania, he said, had 44 million hectares of arable land but only 10.8 million were cultivated for lack of appropriate tools.
“In Rukwa Region, our statistics show that only 4 percent of the farmers use tractors, 80 percent use animal-drawn implements and the rest use holes. Therefore, we have good reasons to support the efforts of this company towards taking tractors to the lowest level,” he said.
Katete Villager, Ms Monica Mgala, endorsed Mr Mugi argument saying that  their village was dependent on animal-drawn implements, but animals were insufficient. “We hire animal-drawn ploughs, but the demand far outstrips supply.  Tractors will be a great help to us,” she said.
Agricom Africa Head of Technical Division Phillipo William, assured authorities that  the tractors would be delivered to cooperatives by the RC as per scheduled.



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