It is good that the clamour for Nigerians to return to agriculture from the Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration of 1976 has been sustained by successive government. However, the problem with most of the call to return to agriculture is that those clamouring for such end with the thought of exporting the agricultural produce, this I disagree with. The question is ‘who are the farmers?’ because most times we want everybody to go back to the farm and if I understand what we are saying we are simply encouraging subsistence farming which from age past have never reduce unemployment or increase government revenue. What types of agriculture should we then do?
If we must reduce the rate of unemployment in Nigeria as well as the depreciation of the naira, we must start buying made in Nigeria goods as well as encourage more investors in Nigeria. This blog intends to give information on how we can start, encourage and sustain small and medium scale industries in Nigeria.