I Made A Mistake With My Tractor For Farmers Policy – Former President Mahama Admits

I Made A Mistake With My Tractor For Farmers Policy – Former President Mahama Admits

After what appears to be a sober reflection of his tenure in office, former President John Mahama has admitted he erred in his policy that sought to purchase tractors for farmers.

The former President says the distribution of the tractors to farmers wasn’t the best since the farmers could not maintain these heavy equipment due to their lack of knowledge in that regard. Mr. Mahama added these tractors broke down in a year or two leading to huge financial losses.

The former President who was speaking at the 59th Munich Security Conference noted that given another opportunity, he will rather buy the tractors, and put them in a pool for someone with the expertise to manage and provide the tractor services to farmers.

He said “I realised some of the things that we did, we made mistakes, we imported tractors and agricultural equipment, and we gave it to farmers. The farmer does not need the tractor, he does not need the agricultural equipment, he needs the services of a tractor,” the former President said in Munich.

“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 [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 [farmer] doesn’t know that. So we will approach it differently” he added.

 

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