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GASUFAN Training Programme: Agriculture Experts Urge Nigerian Youths To Embrace Farming
Experts in the field of agriculture have urged Nigerian youths to embrace agriculture so as to address food insecurity in Nigeria.
Various speakers at the training organised by the Goat and Sheep Utilisation Farmers Association of Nigeria (GASUFAN) in collaboration with Danisco Animal Nutrition and Health (IFF) and the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, IAR$T attributed the clashes between herdsmen and farmers to land grabbing and urged farmers to secure their farms to avoid any form of encroachment.
While welcoming the participants to the event, the national Coordinator of GASUFAN, Prince Adedeji Adewale disclosed that the workshop was aimed at ensuring livestock breeding improvements, enhanced processing, sourcing of investible funds and access to market opportunities.
He added that the workshop will enable the participants to think of increased productivity across supply chain to promote industry, integrity and sustainability of livestock enterprise.
“Our goal is to improve the genetical traits of our WAD and other breeds of livestock through modern husbandry practices and enhance the revenue opportunities on our livestock without eradicating our indigenous animal and birds,” he said.
In her remarks, the Director of IAR$T, Professor Veronica Obatolu, while commending the leaders of GASUFAN for organising the workshop, urged wealthy Nigerians to use their wealth to create farm settlements and assist the less-privileged to work on the farm and cater for them to achieve in life.
Obatolu also urged the youths to stop looking for jobs, but to embrace farming, and called on the government to inject more funds into agriculture to attract the younger generation. This, according to her, will urgently address the problems of food insecurity in the country.
Dr. Ngozi Anurudu of the College of Animal Science, University of Ibadan, who represented Professor Babayemi O. J, spoke on the way forward for cattle production and submitted that the only way forward for rearing cattle is to adopt ranching.
Anurudu urged the farmers to invest their profits on another sectors of the economy during boom period instead of reinvesting it into agriculture because, according to her, the climate might not be conducive to get good returns.
“Ranching is the best and it is not compulsory to move sheep around, when you adopt ranching, the farm should be secured very well, she said.
Other speakers at the workshop included Professor Festus Ajayi, Professor Kingsley Adesehinwa, Dr Oludiran Olaitan and Dr Olusegun Makanjuola.
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