Nigeria’s 30 universities of agriculture have been empowered to immediately commence mechanized farming with the approval of N30 billion by the federal government.
Disclosing this on Tuesday in Abuja while declaring open a retreat organized by the Ministry of Education for pro-chancellors of federal universities, the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, directed specialized universities to focus strictly on their core mandates and cease offering programmes unrelated to their original purpose.
The minister stressed the importance of universities of agriculture owning and operating mechanized farming systems.
He added that each university would receive N1 billion as a take-off grant for the initiative.
