The National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) has suspended the distribution of more than 240 tractors to farmer groups around the country.  

 

 The tractors were procured under the second priority area of the 2016 – 2020 Agriculture Sector Strategic Development Plan for mechanization of Agriculture.      

Vincent Ssempijja, the Agriculture Minister says the pillar focuses on increasing access to critical inputs that include mechanization to improve productivity and profitability of strategic commodity value chains.    

The Ministry says it is delaying the distribution, a week after Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga handed over 36 of the tractors to farmer groups in Busoga sub-region.    

Khadijah Nakakande, the Head of Communications and Public Relations at the NAADS Secretariat says the distribution of the remaining 244 has been suspended over on-going training of 560 operators still taking place in other regions.    

Nakakande says the program will now resume in February next year when the trainings have been completed.