TOHFAN
Tractors Owners & Hiring Facilities Association of Nigeria
Motivation
There are needs in the agricultural sector when it comes to farming and we have the potentials with 84 million hectares of arable land and only 34 million hectare currently under cultivation.
TOHFAN as an association has a vision of ensuring food security which can be ensured by increasing the productivity of farming activities and how can we achieve this? With 65 percent of farmers making use of hoe and cutlasses to farm, 25 percent animal, leaving the remaining 10 percent using tractors with over 180 million mouths to feed in the nation.
How can we increase food production in Nigeria? We decided to get more tractors into more farms and make them easily accessible to smallholder farmers which make up to 70 percent of farmers in Nigeria.
There are a lot of opportunities which is part of the driving force for TOHFAN to ensure food security in Nigeria by farm mechanization. Farmers also need these services to improve on their sources of livelihood and make the sector more attractive to vibrant and intelligent youths.
Farm mechanization will improve and affect the wellbeing of not just the farmers but every Nigerian and Nigeria as a whole. There are other countries with less arable lands than Nigeria and they are utilizing those hectares to its maximum potentials but what of a country like ours blessed with good weather? It was on this note TOHFAN was formed in 2003 to meet the needs of every farmer in Nigeria, providing quality service and ensuring customer satisfaction.
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What We Do
Tractor Hiring Services
Our core value is Customer Satisfaction and we try as much as possible to put the customer’s interest first that’s why we have made our hiring services affordable and convenient for every farmer. Our tractor hiring services is as follows:
Tractors normally do three hectares per day for ploughing and the rate per hectare for ploughing is N25,000
Labour Saving Devices Hiring Services
Besides the provision of tractors for ridging, ploughing and harrowing, we also carrying out major farm mechanization activities such as;
- Hauling a trailer or machinery used for agricultural purposes
- Push/pull implement such as planters, boom sprayers, harvesters threshers, shellers, hullers, grinding machines
Consultancy Services
• Capacity development for your team on GAP (Good Agronomic Practises)
Our Impact
Investment Attracted So Far
₦5,520,000,000
Number of Jobs Created
2,605
Tractors Deployed Till Date
552
Farmers Reached
200,000+
Revenue Generated For Our Partners in 2018
₦1,545,600,000
Number of Partners
105
Demand Generated in 2018
28,000
Female Farmers Reached in 2018
1,302
Vacancies
Tractor Operators
Tractor Owners and Hiring Facilities Association of Nigeria (TOHFAN) is an association of tractor owners, Operators, Mechanics and tractor hiring agents in the business of providing tractor hiring services to farmers on a commercial basis. TOHFAN was established in...
Tractor Mechanic
Tractor Owners and Hiring Facilities Association of Nigeria (TOHFAN) is an association of tractor owners, Operators, Mechanics and tractor hiring agents in the business of providing tractor hiring services to farmers on a commercial basis. TOHFAN was established in...
Investment and Financial Analyst
Location: Zaria, Kaduna Company: TOHFAN To provide a commercial and financial reporting service to ensure reliable category, overhead and balance sheet information is produced, evaluated and communicated to facilitate planning and control and enable decision...
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Case Studies
Farmers lot got better
Mechanisation to the rescue
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Media Mention
Blog Posts
Only 10 percent of farmers make use of tractors in Nigeria – TOHFAN
Tractor Owner & Hiring Facilities Association of Nigeria TOHFAN has stated an alarming observation that only 10 percent of farmers in Nigeria make use of tractors for farming activities. This statement was made by the chairman of the Association, Alhaji Danladi...
Improving Farm Mechanization through the Private Sector in Nigeria
It is a universally accepted fact that for commercial farming to be sustainable and profitable, the procedures right from the land preparation stage to the harvesting stage must be heavily mechanized. Farm labourers regardless of their wealth of experience do not have...
Impact of Agric Mechanization on Nigeria’s Economic Growth
There is no doubt that Nigeria is one of the countries blessed with a sizable portion of arable land and a favourable weather condition which is suitable for around the year farming. Despite having these natural advantages which are capable of making us a major...
Strengthening Women Participation in Farm Mechanization
Women are of the utmost importance in rural economic development and other sectors. In the agricultural value chain, women have been seen to be very active and participate exhaustively in the farm process. Majority of the agricultural production in Nigeria come from...
Accessibility of Tractors to smallholder farmers in Nigeria
Mechanization is an intrinsic part of the agricultural process. In some countries, mechanization means a major improvement in the agricultural sector. However in Nigeria, despite the relevance of farm mechanization, the process of adoption seems slow, this can be...
Comparison of Agricultural Mechanization and Human Labour use in Nigeria
Long before the thought of establishing the simplest of farming tools came into the mind of the first mankind, the basic knowledge required to farm has been in his mind. Though the method was very crude at first, as time goes on, they were able to device simple...
Agricultural Mechanization in Nigeria, Its footing and future
Before the establishment of Department of Botanical Research in 1893, simple tools were the only tools employed by farmers for cultivation in Nigeria. With these simple tools, households were able to adequately feed themselves and also provide surplus produce which...
Nigeria doesn’t have up 7,000 functional tractors – TOHFAN
The National Chairman of Tractor Owners & Hiring Facilities Association of Nigeria TOHFAN Alhaji Danladi Garba over the weekend stated that Nigeria does not have up to 7,000 fully functional tractors. He made this statement while addressing members of the press at...
Farm Mechanization; One of the Solutions to Food Insufficiency in Nigeria
Farm Mechanization is a very important path Agriculture must pass through in Nigeria in order to reach its full potential. Unfortunately, this system of farming has overtime been over-looked and under-utilized in Nigeria and some other developing countries of the...
Financial Partner
Agricultural Mechanization is capital intensive hence there is need to have a supporting finacial institution. FMCB has been playing this role for TOHFAN since 2014, the relationship we have with FCMB is quite impressive and has help build our business. In May 2014...
Partners
