LASG Charges Students On Agriculture

The Lagos State Government has urged secondary school students in the state to embrace agriculture as a means of livelihood and for income generation.
The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms Abisola Olusanya, stated this during the handover of three smart farms to principals of three senior secondary schools in Lagos.
The Tide’s source reports that the beneficiaries include Lagos City Senior College, Sabo, Yaba; Igbobi College, Yaba and Omole Senior Grammar School, Ikeja.
The farms are smart aquaponics, aquaculture and poultry system units with hardware components under the Lagos Agric Scholar Programme.
Olusanya said  the students should not look at agriculture as an archaic profession but means where people are making huge income.
She said they must eat irrespective of what they wished to become in future noting, without food they could not achieve their goals.
According to her, countries such as Botswana, U.S. and China are rooted in agriculture.
“As an engineer, a doctor, aeronautic engineer, or neurosurgeon, whatever it is you want to become, you must eat.
“Even if you say you want to go on 30 days fast, no food, no water, you must break the fast with food.
“So, who is going to produce food if none of you is interested in agriculture? Where do you think your food will come from?
“If you do your research today, the largest land holder in the U.S. is Bill Gate. He is buying off most of the farmlands and it is for a reason.
“The person that controls the food resort of the world will control the world.
“With Ukraine and Russia war, we know the effect on prices of bread in the market, because the wheat used in making bread comes from the eastern Europe.
“Agrisiti and Corporate Farmers are a crop of young and vibrant farmers with the energy, zeal and passion to transform agriculture in Nigeria.
“We are happy and proud to work with these young people to transform agriculture in Lagos”, she said.
The representative of Agrisiti, Mr Oyewole Akintohude, said aquaculture consist of two fish ponds with 400 fingerlings, while the poultry was stocked with 60 birds and hydropohics.
Akintohude said the farms had solar system, borehole water and generating set to perform optimally.
Also, Mr Adedotun Akanbi, Principal, Igbobi College, Yaba, commended the state government for choosing the school as one of those to benefit from the laudable project.
Akanbi said the project was coming at a better time to train the students on practical agriculture.
The Founder, Corporate Farmer, Mr Akin Alabi, said a comic book was created for students in 2020 on red meat value chain and rice, to educate them on the projects of the government and agric in general.