Origin Tech Group, the main sponsor of a two-day stakeholders’ workshop on ‘Draft Review of the National Agricultural Mechanisation Policy’, organised in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, has lauded the initiative to convene influential leaders from government and other stakeholders within the public, private sectors, and development organizations, to shape the future of agricultural mechanisation in Nigeria.
   
At the meeting, stakeholders began a review of the national agricultural mechanisation policy document to ensure its implementation once passed by the National Assembly.
  
One of its flagship programmes, the Greener Hope Large Scale Mechanisation Programme (GHAPP) represents a public-private partnership, involving the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security and the Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation. 
   
At the workshop, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Temitope Fashidemi, reiterated the government’s commitment to empowering small-holder farmers through mechanization in line with the “Renewed Hope” Agenda of the current administration.

His remarks were echoed by Dr Musa Olasupo, Director of Programmes for GHAPP.  Youth representative in agribusiness, Jerry Tobi, lauded the workshop’s focus on mechanisation.