NaijaAgroNet
The Nigerian youths have been called upon to develop keen interest in agriculture as a way of ending unemployment and as such create wealth and food sufficiency in the nation, the founder, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Evangelist Uma Ukpai has said.
NaijaAgroNet reports that Uma Ukpai stated this while addressing news men in Uyo, AkwaIbom, recently. He said that Nigeria, in all ramifications, should be one of the richest countries of the world given its abundant natural and human resources, regretting, however, that it could not even feed its citizens due to misplaced priorities.
“Our youths should promote
agriculture. They should promote vocational skills acquisition since it has
become very difficult to engage the numerous graduates looking for white collar
jobs,” he said.
He gave more hints that agriculture
with its potential is capable of not only transforming the national economy but
also tremendously impacting on the personal lives of the farmers, particularly
the youth
Consequently, he tasked Nigeria
youths to stop complaining about poverty and unemployment or blaming government
for every woe and challenge but rather think of creating wealth through
farming, adding, “a society where everybody runs after government to provide
everything does not prosper.