Falling Oil Price: NUJ Boss Urges Involvement in Agric

The chairman of  Ni
geria Union of Journalists, (NUJ) Edo State Chapter, Comrade Desmond Agbama, has called for more involvement of youths in agriculture in the country.
The Chairman in a release in Benin and made available to The Tide Sunday, said that youths involvement in agriculture had become necessary especially now that oil price had continued to fall in the global market.
He said that if youths embraced agriculture, it would boost food production for export and generate move foreign exchange for the country thereby reducing the impact of the fall in oil price.
The chairman noted that the country’s youths were no longer interested in agriculture due to its poor remuneration and lack of support.
“Youths now prefer to be involved in internet fraud and other means of getting quick money which do not contribute to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country”. He called on governments at all levels to allocate more resources to the agriculture sector to ensure the establishment of large farm settlements were the youths will work.
According to him, such farm settlements should have the needed infrastructure to encourage the youths to adapt to such environments.
The  NUJ boss also called on the National Youth Service Corp, (NYSC) to encourage its youths to embrace agriculture even as he said it should be an avenue to create awareness on the relevance of agriculture to nation building.
He advised Nigerians not to lament on the fall of oil price but see it as a challenge to look inward and develop other sectors of the economy.

Farm produce displayed during the World Food Day celebration in Port Harcourt, recently.