Agriculture , our lost glory The worse of it is that we hardly would have an ordinary Nigerian say this right now with the current insecurity situation in the country, saying he is leaving his job in town to retire to his farm in the village. Such person will go hungry because the farm that was suppose to provide food for you will be overrun by herders.
The issue of insecurity is quite alarming in Nigeria and that has affected agriculture in the land making hardship to become unbearable as it stands now. Agricultural products use to be our main export in the recent past but what has happened now is that politicians have become indifferent to the challenges facing the system. Here we see a Vice president from Tanzania retiring back to his father's farm but same is not happening in Nigeria unfortunately. I would have shown the picture of the VP but I'm yet to get to where I can attach images for now.
The "thing" called Nigerian politician doesn't have a second address, it doesn't have a career, what it knows is to loot and wait for another election to contest for political position and loot again. What we should be talking about is an industrialize and mechanized pattern of farming, not the peasant farmers who can barely feed a single community with his farm produce.
Individuals should take it upon themselves and go into massive industrialize and mechanize farming, because they are the ones to drive this economy on a private level, apart from the fact that did North has mass land, there are areas in the Southern part of Nigeria that are not ravage by bandit where farming can also go on while we wait for security agencies to sort out the issue of insecurity in the North. So the idea of farming should be private driven, until the day the government would want to give out soft loans to assist farmers.