The Executive Director of the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation , Ilorin, Kwara State, Dr Yomi Kasali, has canvassed creating market opportunities for agricultural produce in Nigeria to serve as a morale booster for youths and women in agricultural business.
“Today’s youths want instant money. But I think their constraint remains getting ready markets for their produce.“In the same vein, the population of our women farmers would have been more but for their inability to get instant buyers of their produce. This is what we will tackle frontally at this training programme. We will open up various marketing channels through adequate awareness for them to get them enriched.
“The idea is to maximise the land and ensure that the waste products of one section serves as positive inputs for the others. This will eradicate waste and usher in bumper harvests. Besides, it will reduce the gap of fund paucity in the lives of the farmers, because if a section is not ripe for harvest, other sections will,” he said.