President Goodluck Jonathan said on Monday at the Banquet
Hall of the State House, Abuja while flagging off the National
Schools Agriculture Programme (NSAP) said and explained
that the 'Green Revolution' and 'Operation Feed the Nation'
might have failed because they were not properly articulated.
He said: "This is not just one of those programmes that we
have been having. As a nation, we have had the 'Green
Revolution' programme launched, we participated in that. We
also had 'Operation Feed the Nation'. But at the end of the
day, probably, it was not properly articulated, it just followed
the political class and disappeared."
According to him, the primary goal of the programme was to
build technical and entrepreneurship skills in the students, to
run agriculture as a business, equip school leavers with
practical life skills, create jobs for themselves and to enable
the youth develop a positive attitude towards agriculture.
Its first phase, a School Agri-business Club (SAC), is to be
established in selected schools from 12 states of the
federation across the six geo-political zones. Each club will
comprise 120 students.
The programme, he added will also focus on food/vegetable
production, horticulture, aquiculture, poultry, apiary,
livestock, production, small scale irrigation, nutrition,
processing, and packaging, and entrepreneurial skills for
members of the SAC.
He said: "We need the Under-20s to link up with the
Dangotes, Elumelus and other big Nigerian entrepreneurs.
This is part of our strategy to tackle youth unemployment. We
are developing agriculture Super Eagles".
“Farming is a white-collar job, but the approach is what is
wrong” he said.
About 4,400 students, spread across the country, will be
involved and about half a million youths will benefit from the
programme.
Also speaking at the event the Minister of Agriculture,
Akinwumi Adesina said food is also one of the biggest
money-making ventures in life, hence the need to bring in the
young people into the business.
Recalling that Nigeria was the first in the world to implement
the e-wallet system, he said the World Bank has agreed to
scale up the programme.
“This further strengthens our resolve to modernise
agriculture” he said, adding that “all the schools will be duly
registered under the e-wallet GES system”.
The Education Minister, Ibrahim Shekarau also noted that
school wasn’t only about reading and writing or just
acquiring knowledge but also being exposed to the activities
outside the world
Hall of the State House, Abuja while flagging off the National
Schools Agriculture Programme (NSAP) said and explained
that the 'Green Revolution' and 'Operation Feed the Nation'
might have failed because they were not properly articulated.
He said: "This is not just one of those programmes that we
have been having. As a nation, we have had the 'Green
Revolution' programme launched, we participated in that. We
also had 'Operation Feed the Nation'. But at the end of the
day, probably, it was not properly articulated, it just followed
the political class and disappeared."
According to him, the primary goal of the programme was to
build technical and entrepreneurship skills in the students, to
run agriculture as a business, equip school leavers with
practical life skills, create jobs for themselves and to enable
the youth develop a positive attitude towards agriculture.
Its first phase, a School Agri-business Club (SAC), is to be
established in selected schools from 12 states of the
federation across the six geo-political zones. Each club will
comprise 120 students.
The programme, he added will also focus on food/vegetable
production, horticulture, aquiculture, poultry, apiary,
livestock, production, small scale irrigation, nutrition,
processing, and packaging, and entrepreneurial skills for
members of the SAC.
He said: "We need the Under-20s to link up with the
Dangotes, Elumelus and other big Nigerian entrepreneurs.
This is part of our strategy to tackle youth unemployment. We
are developing agriculture Super Eagles".
“Farming is a white-collar job, but the approach is what is
wrong” he said.
About 4,400 students, spread across the country, will be
involved and about half a million youths will benefit from the
programme.
Also speaking at the event the Minister of Agriculture,
Akinwumi Adesina said food is also one of the biggest
money-making ventures in life, hence the need to bring in the
young people into the business.
Recalling that Nigeria was the first in the world to implement
the e-wallet system, he said the World Bank has agreed to
scale up the programme.
“This further strengthens our resolve to modernise
agriculture” he said, adding that “all the schools will be duly
registered under the e-wallet GES system”.
The Education Minister, Ibrahim Shekarau also noted that
school wasn’t only about reading and writing or just
acquiring knowledge but also being exposed to the activities
outside the world
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