The founder, YFarm Project, Nkiru
Nnaemego, has called on the Buhari-led government to ensure the implementation of
youth-led projects, especially for the agriculture sector, NaijaAgroNet reports.
She stated that the government can
borrow a leaf from those of YFarm that aim to establish and promote at least 10,000
youth-led farms and agribusinesses across Nigeria and Africa by 2020, NaijaAgroNet learnt.
“Agriculture is not only profitable
but a solution to problems of unemployment, insecurity, poverty, corruption,
among several others,” she said, challenging youths to embrace agriculture by
accessing land, finance, market, mentoring, farm inputs and equipment, to reap lots
of benefits in the sector.
The government, Nnaemego said could
implement youth-led projects by creating platforms to showcase African and
national youth agriculture festivals and marketplace, schools camp on
sustainable agriculture, e-platforms, community outreaches on agribusiness and
climate smart agriculture as a means to capturing the attention of the youths
to get involved in agriculture.
She also said that the benefits of YFarm
Project, for instance include a platform for agricultural education, viable
careers and businesses, improved livelihoods through jobs creation,
entrepreneurial opportunities, among several others, describing mechanization
as the solution to attract the attention of the Nigerian youths to agriculture,
reports NaijaAgroNet.
She pointed out the need to ensure
that the subsidized farm inputs are made available to youths in rural areas to further
boost youth curiosity in the sector in order propel more investment in
agricultural mechanization.
Cyriacus Nnaji
with additional reports by Leadership/GEE
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