Former President John Mahama has confessed he made a “mistake” buying tractors for farmers.
According to him, his administration should have rather pooled the tractors and rendered services to the farmers instead.
“I realized some of the things that we did, we made mistakes”.
“We imported tractors and agricultural equipment and we gave them to farmers”. He said
He further explained, “The farmer does not need the tractor, he does not need the agricultural equipment, he needs the services of a tractor.
Mr. Mahama said a service centre where the tractors would have been in the care of experienced engineers who would have rendered services to the farmers and looked after the farm machinery, would have served the same purpose in a better way, than handing the tractors to the farmers.
“So, somebody who knows how to maintain that tractor must have a service centre, where he provides the services to the farmer”.
“But we gave the tractors to the farmers, and in a year or two the tractor had broken down because he [the farmer] doesn’t know that every six months you must change the engine oil, you must change the filters, you must grease the tractor; he doesn’t know that”.
“So, we will approach it differently”, Mr. Mahama stated
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Source : Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana
