NAMCON Urges Students To Study, Practise Agriculture

The National Agricultural Mechanisation Cooperative of Nigeria (NAMCON) has urged students to engage in the study and practice of agriculture to guarantee food sufficiency in the country.

Bethel Eke, NAMCON's Zonal Coordinator, Orlu zone, Imo, gave the message in Owerri on Monday at a quiz competition on agricultural science, organised for secondary schools across the state.

Eke opined that the improved presence of students and other youths in the agricultural sector would assure the survival of the sector, noting that older persons who dominated the sector for its sustenance were gradually letting go.

The Zonal Coordinator said that the quiz competition was intended to bring agriculture to the grassroots by catching the students young and encouraging them to leverage the opportunity to maintain the country’s survival through food sufficiency.

“We want our students to consider agriculture as germane to the country’s survival, as it will reduce youth restiveness and dependence on white-collar jobs.

“As there is a clamour for leadership shift to young ones, agriculture should also be taken over by them.

“That way, we’ll have an agricultural revolution that will ensure food production and sufficiency,” he said.

Reacting, the students appreciated NAMCON for the quiz competition to reiterate the need to attach more importance to agriculture, urging other students to embrace NAMCON's interference

Henry Onwudiwe, a staff member of Okigwe National Grammar School in Imo, appreciated NAMCON for re-igniting students’ interest in agriculture, pledging to relay the corporation's message to his students.