NALDA plans electric tractors, solar irrigation for farms

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The National Agricultural Land Development Authority on Tuesday said it is developing climate-smart farm estates powered by solar energy and electric machinery.

This is as it moves to reduce farmers’ dependence on rainfall and attract carbon credit financing for agricultural projects.

The Executive Secretary and Chief Executive Officer of NALDA, Cornelius Adebayo, disclosed this at a session on green industrialisation, critical minerals and energy security at the 2026 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Antalya, Türkiye.

Speaking during the session, which focused on climate-smart farming, the CEO stated that the agency was piloting a farm estate where land clearing would be done with electric bulldozers, while electric tractors and solar-powered irrigation systems would be deployed to reduce emissions across the production process.

“Our hope as an agency is to earn carbon credits from such farm estates and farm locations,” Adebayo said.

He added, “We use zero-emission areas. We’re introducing electric bulldozers; we’re introducing electric tractors in that particular location. And we are introducing solar power irrigation for full irrigation of the scheme. Everything, every single thing within that facility is climate conscious. Every single thing. And that is our first location that is supposed to be a fully clean location.”

The agency’s plan comes as Nigerian farmers contend with increasingly unpredictable rainfall, which has disrupted planting seasons and exposed rain-fed agriculture to climate risks.

Adebayo said the experience of the current planting season had reinforced the need to move towards irrigation-based farming.

He said, “The rains were not predicted in Nigeria. And the farmers- a lot of farmers that don’t do the planting yet were the lucky ones. The ones that did the planting were quite unlucky this year. So it shows that we need to move from rain-fed to climate-smart to irrigation-based farming.

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