Recession: Publisher Advocates Shift To Agric

The publisher and Editor- In-Chief of Agric Ignite Africa (AIA), Mr. Livingstone Braide, has called on Nigerians, to stop blaming the country’s economic woes on global economic  down turn.
Writing in the latest edition of the magazine,  Braide called for efforts geared toward grabbing  opportunities for agric development.
He said within this global  economic downturn  lies an offer for  Nigeria and indeed Africa,  bountiful  opportunities to harness her agric potentials.
He opined that low oil prices should create avenues in the non-oil sectors for the purpose of diversifying the economy.
“With every lesson we  learn comes a decision that will shape our future, so we should think of what life will be like in a post oil economy that is why we must heavily invest on agricbuiness”,  he asserted.
According to him, such diversification processes would create wealth and more jobs for the teeming  population.
He added that Nigeria should grow together and develop together.
“Our problems are the results of counterproductive national paradigms and self-limiting frameworks”, he said.
He further opined that creating the right environment and systems, Nigeria and Africa as a whole  could be the food factory of the  world.
Describing his opinion as Africa’s escape route,  Braide said blaming Nigeria’s economic  woes on the global economic  down turn is  a “symptom of chronic  national meal laziness”.