The agricultural sector holds immense potential to provide employment opportunities for thousands of unemployed youths in Nigeria. However, insecurity and the lack of advanced technology hinder progress in this vital industry.
INTERVIEW: No digital solution can fix Nigeria’s agriculture without solving insecurity, says Tajudeen Yahaya, Tajudeen Yahaya, CEO of Extension Africa, shares insights into how Africa’s most populous nation can navigate these obstacles to create jobs, enhance productivity, and ensure food security for its growing population.
To achieve this, we conduct extensive training for rural women and youth and deploy them to work with farmers in their communities. Once trained, we then address the question of how they will be compensated. Currently, there is no government funding or support from NGOs. Therefore, we explore models that enable these agents to support agribusinesses looking for access to rural farmers.
Agriculture is the most inclusive sector, particularly in Nigeria, because when you grow agriculture, you grow the last man, you grow jobs for young people in remote communities, you reduce rural-urban migration, and you reduce insecurity. It should not be taken lightly, especially with what we have learned last year.The farmer is currently doing just one season. If he tries, two seasons.
If you have poor soil, if you put all the quality stuff, it will not work. If you have good soil but you have poor seeds, you are losing over 30% of whatever yield you are supposed to get. Do you understand? Now, what does that mean? A lot of what we are doing is still trying to target 2 million farmers or 10 million max. Nobody has access to a database of 4 million farmers in a market with over 30 million farmers. This shows that we are still scratching the surface when it comes to reaching farmers. By unlocking the potential of extension services, you are unlocking 60% of farmers who are very hard for all of us to reach, meaning that we can now supervise and enhance what they are producing.
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