Four months after Tinubu launched N50b Tractor Initiative, tractors remain unused


Nearly four months after President Bola Tinubu launched N50 billion worth of farm tractors to boost food production, the equipment remains idle, exposing Nigeria’s recurring pattern of stalled agricultural reforms, bureaucratic bottlenecks, and waste of public resources that undermine the government’s mechanisation agenda.

The machinery is currently gathering dust at the headquarters of the National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC). While there are no official details on the exact cost of the 9,022 agricultural machines imported from Belarus, findings by The Guardian revealed that an average tractor costs about N28 million.

Consequently, the 2,000 tractors alone may have cost the country about N30 billion, even at a subsidised rate of N15 million each.

A top ministry official, who requested anonymity, told The Guardian via text message that the ministry had yet to begin distribution due to delays in approving the sharing formula.

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