Former President John Dramani Mahama has described buying tractors and farm equipment for farmers as one of his government’s biggest mistakes.
Looking back, he says, he believes the NDC government he led was wrong on policy and would have done it differently if given the opportunity.
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Mr Mahama who atteneded the 59th Munich Safety Conference in 202, the former president said buying tractors and handing them over to farmers who have expertise in managing and maintaining tractors would be a better way to implement this policy.
“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,” citinewsroom.com quotes the former President as saying.
“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.
The 59th Munich Security Conference in 2023 provides the platform for high-level debates on key foreign policy and foreign policy challenges.
Mahama is the chair of the Tana High-Level Forum on African Security. Tana Forum in collaboration with the Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. (BDI) on Saturday, hosted an MSC regional breakfast, side event on “Africa’s Place in a Multipolar World: Move from strategy to action.”
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As President of the Tana Forum, President Mahama opened the session and African Defense Minister Thandi Modise delivered the opening remarks.
The President of the Munich Security Conference, Ambassadors Christoph Heusgen and Wolfgang Niedermark of the BDI, Federation of German Industry, spoke there.
