Liege Africa hand over the keys for the AGCO Future Farm Training Centre.

Open for business! Jay Horwood (LIEGE AFRICA Managing Director), Shannon Joynt (LIEGE AFRICA Contracts Director) and Marc Schutte (LIEGE AFRICA Contracts Manager) handed over the keys to Jaco Orsmond (AGCO Project Engineer  – Africa), Steve Clarke (AGCO Vice President Strategic Marketing), Nuradin Osman (AGCO Director of Operations, Africa & Middle East)and Jason Burbidge (AGCO General Manager for Southern Africa)

AGCO Africa and Middle East Management team celebrated the handing over of the keys to the eagerly anticipated AGCO Future Farm Africa mechanization training centre in a ceremony with local staff in Lusaka last week. “AGCO’s new state-of-the-art regional mechanization training centre will promote best practice in modern farming technology” said Steve Clarke, Vice President, Strategic Marketing & Brand Governance EAME, “Standing in the building today, I have seen how far we have come to maintain AGCO’s global training centre standards. This centre is the first of its kind in Africa and it will help us to boost the standards of our distribution network across the continent”.

Liege Africa have successfully completed AGCO’s Training Centre in Zambia at the AGCO Future Farm. The new training center is strategically located in the capital city Lusaka and is close to the International Airport, making it easily accessible for the whole East and Southern African region. “It is a milestone for AGCO to have the regional training center building completed,” explained Nuradin Osman, AGCO Director of Operations, Africa & Middle East, “Overall this is a huge achievement for the Africa Strategy. We set out to do something a little different in Africa and being able to have this infrastructure will help us build capacity of the highest global standards within the region, it is beyond amazing!