PREAMBLE: As approved by the Management, the student excursion is to basically expose the students to the real practice of agriculture, a total of 102 students of the college in the company of 8 members of faculty and staff embarked on excursion visit to National Center for Agricultural Mechanization (NCAM) and Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI).
PURPOSE OF THE EXERCISE:
The visit is specifically organized for the following motives:
– So that students could add to their practical knowledge of agriculture. – For them to have broad ideas of agricultural practice relations that exist between the government and farmers specially those in rural ears.
– To further educate students on possibility with respect to agricultural mechanization.
PLACES VISITED:
At ARMTI, the officer assigned having taken students and staff round the major facilities within the institute’s premises took time to give details of their functions, roles and how they proffer solutions to challenges encountered by farmers in the rural settlements, she further mentioned that the institute also serves as middlemen between the government and farmers in rural settings by providing them with relevant agricultural skills and information that will help improve their farming engagement and productivity.
At NCAM, the students and staff were warmly welcomed by the institute’s officials, thereafter the officer assigned took them round the major facilities in the institute’s premises where they were informed of what the institute stands for which is manufacturing and provision of agricultural equipment for both government and self-own farms, to aid farming engagement and reduce stress. In the course of the visit, the section in charge integrated farming unit was able to showcase the following equipment:
– Yam mould plough for making yam ridges
– Power tiller for planting rice
– Harvesters of diverse types
– Tricator for ploughing, tractor in tricycle form locally fabricated by NCAM, the first of it in Nigeria.
– Other farming equipment (foreign manufactured and locally fabricated)
CONCLUSION
We appreciated management for this rare privilege given to further expose the students to agricultural practice, the privileged is not taken for granted.
