BY NEW BUSINESS ETHIOPIA REPORTER
Industries for Africa (IfA), the Sweden-based foundation, launches mega project which will make the top African mechanical
engineering students manufacturers of tractors and other machineries.
The project launched in Addis Ababa today, July 15, 2010, is said will enable Africa to produce machineries in the coming few years using 100 percent local resources and Computer Numeric Control (CNC) technologies.
“We train the students using CNC technologies on how they can produce tractors and other machineries using only local resources,” said Orjan Ring, Founder of Industries for Africa launching the project this afternoon at Desalegn Hotel.
“Africa has all the natural resources needed to produce such machineries, what it lacks is only the technologies to develop these resources. And our foundation has found the solution to address this bottle neck,” he told newbusinessethiopia.com.
The project w
ill be implemented in selected African countries for the coming ten years and Ethiopia is one of the three counties chosen by the foundation to start with.
The shortcut technology transfer project among other things is expected to boost agricultural productivity of Sub Saharan African countries while saving their hard currency they incur in importing the machineries from abroad.
Explaining why they decided to start the project in Ethiopia, Chairman of the foundation Andrea Lennberg on her part said: “The double-digit GDP growth of Ethiopia for the past six years and the large population of the country and rich natural resources are among the major reasons we decided to start the project here”.
The foundation has now invited interested smart mechanical Engineering university students in Ethiopia to contact the foundation via emails listed on www.industriesforafrica.org. After completing its review, the foundation will also announce the two Sub-Saharan African nations where similar projects will be implemented.
Ten top students will be selected for the first round training and will be provided with financing mechanisms, which will allow them to get money to establish machinery manufacturing factories here in Ethiopia after completing the training.
The machineries and tractors, which the students are expected to manufacture locally after taking practical and theoretical training using computer numerous technologies, is said will be competent in the international market quality and cost wise.
The foundation also plans to purchase 10 percent of these machineries to distribute it to Europe market in order to generate hard currency for African counties.
Industries for Africa is a non profit organization funded by major continental and global donor organizations.
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