{"id":23401,"date":"2018-05-02T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=23401"},"modified":"2018-05-02T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:39:40","slug":"explore-opportunities-in-agric-buhari-urges-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/explore-opportunities-in-agric-buhari-urges-youths\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore Opportunities In Agric, Buhari Urges Youths"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Muhammadu Buhari has, again, called on youths in Nigeria to seize opportunities in agriculture, a sector of the economy he said is already proving to be the bedrock of the nation\u2019s new economy.<\/p>\n

He made the call, on Monday, at the Blair House, Washington DC, after his White House engagements with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

He was speaking at a meeting the Chief Executive Officers of six American agricultural companies and their Nigerian counterparts including Aliko Dangote and John Coumantaros.<\/p>\n

President Buhari, for a second time in two weeks, lamented the challenges of the country\u2019s youth population, with \u201csixty per cent of the population below 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, President Buhari stressed that the country must help the young people to plan their future and urged them to explore opportunities easily accessible in agriculture because, as he said, \u201cagriculture is the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

While stressing that planning in Nigeria must take into consideration the factors of climate and a bulging youth population, President Buhari also promised his administration\u2019s support in the promotion of skill development, innovation and entrepreneurship among the young population.<\/p>\n

According to him, \u201cWe realised, rather belatedly, that we ought to have been investing in agriculture. We are now aiming at food security because of our large population. Our youths, the ones who have gone to school and even those that have not, should go to the farm, to earn respect for themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgriculture is providing jobs for millions of our citizens and we are doing well towards the attainment of food security and jobs. The media may not appreciate the work we are doing but we will shock them by the success we are recording.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Buhari also welcomed several investment proposals being put in place by the Americans and their Nigerian counterparts.<\/p>

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Among those brought up for discussions were the three million tons fertilizer by Dangote, the largest in Africa coming on stream in July, to be followed by another one to produce 1.4 million tons of the commodity; a large-scale modern seed production company, and weed and pest management and chemicals products companies by the Americans.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Burger King food chain with plans to integrate local farmers in livestock production; the Heinz tomatoes production, with backward integration of Nigerian tomato farmers; and another company coming to set up a local branch to facilitate merchandising of commodities, in effect establishing a link between the Nigerian producers and the global market.<\/p>\n

A tractor manufacturing company, John Deer, also unfolded a plan for an assembly plant to produce 10,000 tractors in four years in Nigeria. They will all come with jobs for Nigerians.<\/p>\n

In another business meeting same day, President Buhari brought together Nigerian businessmen and their American counterparts from the U.S Chamber of Commerce and the Corporate Council on Africa, (CCA.)<\/p>\n

The US Chamber, on behalf of its three million member-companies which included General Electric, Chevron, Proctor and Gamble and Boeing aircraft manufacturers, expressed happiness with improved security in the Niger Delta, reforms in the economy leading to ease in doing business, and the war the administration is waging against corruption.<\/p>\n

Several of the oncoming plans were disclosed to the President who demanded concrete plans and an aggressive timetable for their actualisation.<\/p>\n

He envisaged that the investment schemes will lead to a lot of new opportunities for the Nigerian youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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