Nigerian Youths are hard working and dexterous enough to transform the Nation’s food system and advance a healthy human society through the promotion of food security. Our land is quite vast, our soil so rich and our climate very conducive enough to support the growth of diverse crops, wether root or tuber, plantation or arable, cash or non cash, ornamental or nutritive, cereal or grain, hygrophyte, mesophyte or xerophyte. Nothing is indeed wrong with us the youths, we know exactly what to do and how best to do it. We have excel in every field of endeavor and Agriculture can’t be an exception.
As funds are set aside for Abroad Educational and Industrial training of the youths, let same support be made available for us to get involved actively in agriculture. Review our land tenure system as a Nation to give land holding rights to youths with interest in Agriculture, make deliberate lending policy that youths can leverage upon, establish more Agricultural Research Institutes and refurbish the old ones, encourage Agricultural Researches in our Universities and make hybrid Agric Species available to the youths at little or no cost, make youths who have excelled remarkably in various crafts Ambassadors of certain food crops so other youths can be encouraged to grow same, make export of agri-products less cumbersome with a tax free regime so as some youths can delve into export as an Agri-chain, build roads to make marketing of agri-products easy and transform the rural environment to make city life less attractive to the youths. This and several others are measures that when carefully followed and executed, an average Nigerian Youth will contribute meaningfully to “transform the food system,and make the youth innovative enough to promote human and planetary health”.
God bless Etung Youths!
God bless Cross River State Youths!!
God bless Nigerian Youths!!!
Happy Int’l Youth Day.
Comrade J.B Ogar.
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