Nigeria is presently the world’s largest producer of cassava due to the policy support of the Jonathan administration for cassava farmers. The crop is now also being harvested and processed into flour for baking cassava bread which is making a slow but sure ascendancy into the mainstream.
Agriculture has become the new cool, even among young people through the combined approach of policy support and awareness adopted by the present government. The Youth Employment in Agriculture Programme is one of such policies that is helping to reshape our perception of agriculture. The programme is attracting young graduates and school leavers across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones into commercial farming and agro business. A new word was coined ‘Nagropreneur’ to describe people signing up for the project but much more exciting is the potential number of jobs to be created. Having 750, 000 entrepreneurial youths supported financially and equipped with the skills for commercial farming will surely have an astounding multiplier effect in Nigeria’s quest to create more jobs for her teeming youth population in the nearest future. Popular musician, D’Banj is an ambassador of the programme and is himself leading by example with his foray into agriculture…
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