The government says it would support individuals and institutions ready to make inputs into the development of agriculture, especially mechanisation.

Mechanising agriculture at all levels of production and processing was important hence the need to source new machinery and technologies or adapt already existing ones to remove the constraints farmers face.

It was in this connection that the government was facilitating the establishment of mechanisation service stations in six selected centres to encourage private participation in the provision of mechanised services, the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Major Courage Quashigah (rtd) said.

In a speech read for him at the launch of VARI Multi purpose mini tractors system at the Eight International Trade Fair in Accra, Maj. Quashigah said the country was making efforts to attract investment into agriculture and expressed the hope that the new technology would help stem the tide of waste in tractor utilisation, in which large capacity tractors were used for smallholdings.