Agriculture
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”.