Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola, yesterday blamed the attitude of Nigerians for the country’s poor showing in agribusiness.
He noted that an average citizen believes that white-collar jobs were good while farming was dirty, stating that the colonial masters planted the apathy.
This is just as the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and AfricaRice entered into a three-year partnership with the university for the training of 1,000 youths in various agriculture techniques.
The team of experts from the partnering agencies said the essence of the programme was to tackle youth unemployment in Nigeria and encourage that targeted population to perceive farming as a profitable business. Read more