BUSINESS NOTE: Nigeria's Farming System Unattractive To Youths, Says MANN Chairman

Abia State chairman of the Maize Association of Nigeria , Hon Onyekachi Erondu, has said the country’s farming system is not attractive to the youths because it has remained a machete-and-hoe affair.

According to him, “This is why the sector has continued to fail to attract the participation of the teaming unemployed youths,” who he said, with their education and energy should have been on the driver’s seat.” The MANN chairman said if the sector was well organised to begin with mechanisation through production, processing and marketing, it would have before now become the fastest growing with viable job windows.

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