The Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture, John Dumelo, has officially launched Captain Tractors onto the Ghanaian market and inaugurated a new Agricultural Mechanisation Centre in the Eastern Region, declaring that mechanisation is about empowering farmers, not replacing them.
Addressing farmers, traditional leaders and private sector partners at the ceremony, Mr Dumelo described the introduction of the tractors as a deliberate and strategic intervention to bridge the mechanisation gap for smallholder farmers.
“For too long, our small holder farmers have been caught in the middle ground, needing more power than a hole. But finding massive industrial tractors impracticable or unaffordable,” he said.
“These tractors represent precision and accessibility,” he added, explaining that their compact design would allow for easy movement across diverse terrains while delivering the horsepower required to transform farm operations.
He noted that the initiative would reduce farmers’ reliance on “back breaking manual labor”, enhance timely farm operations and ensure planting and harvesting happen “at the optical biological window”.
Describing the mechanisation centre as the most critical component of the initiative, he said: “A tractor without a service center is merely a ticking clock. This center will serve as a sanctuary for maintenance, a hub for spare parts, and, most importantly, a classroom.”
“We aren’t just giving farmers keys. We are building an ecosystem of operators, technicians and entrepreneurs,” he stated.
Emphasising the policy direction, Mr Dumelo added: “Mechanization is not about replacing the farmer. It is about empowering the farmer to do more and more and live better.”
Formally launching the tractors and inaugurating the centre, he said: “Together, let us plow the fields of hope and harvest the future of abundance. Thank you. God bless you. God bless Kweku, man and also, God bless Ghana.”
Mechanisation ‘the way to go’
Earlier, the Eastern Regional Director of Agriculture, Samuel Barima Offiso, described agricultural mechanisation as essential to improving productivity and incomes.
“For us, agricultural mechanization is the way to go, because if look at how to improve productivity, improve income and other things, we would have to change the way we do our culture,” he said.
He explained that the partnership between Hawkrad and Captain Tractors would provide mechanisation services not only to the enclave but to the entire Eastern Region and Ghana at large.
“Once this place begin take off, one of the key services we’ll be providing will be the mechanization service that’s providing access to modern element tractors and its implements,” he said.
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