The Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) has expressed warm excitement and appreciation to the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Dr Goodluck Jonathan over the official launching of the Youths Employment in Agriculture Program (YEAP) and the Funds for Agriculture Finance in Nigeria (FAFIN)in Abuja yesterday.
The director of Operations of TAN, Barr Benchuks Nwosu who spoke with journalists after monitoring the live telecast of the launch in Awka yesterday said that the agricultural revolution/transformation programme of the administration has motivated and encouraged youths to embrace the sector in large numbers. That it was unlike in the past when it was hitherto reserved for old and uneducated people.
The initiative, he noted has raised a generation of Nagropreneurs who see agriculture as a business and not just a means of subsistence for old people, and family members, the implication of which he observed has drastically reduced the nation’s reliance on huge food imports. That at the fullness of time it would provide employment for the greatest number of Nigerians, income, industrial raw materials, export proceeds and food for the citizens.
The value chain of agriculture according to the TAN chief has greatly improved thereby making agro-based industries to start springing up across the country on daily basis.
Nwosu stated that the new approach to agriculture occasioned by Dr Jonathan has indeed repositioned the sector as alternative to the petroleum sector which is facing dwindling fortunes. He said that the President?s transformation and revolution in the agriculture sector is in line with the position and aspiration of TAN to empower over two million Nigerians in its waste to wealth initiative annually.
He particularly gave a thumbs up for Jonathan for his unprecedented agric and youths-friendly policies. That he has removed the gap between the farmers and the government which used to be the experience in the country when lip service was only paid to issues that affects farmers.
Nwosu was in Awka on the head of TAN executives who came to assess the state chapters of the organization. He noted that funds meant for the agricultural sector now get to the real farmers, unlike in the past when unscrupulous politicians and businessmen ?farmers? who are not in any way connected to farming and farmers cornered the intervention funds and other such additives.
Source: From Chuks Collins, Awka
