Great Future - Agriculture

Hi Folks, 

It's good to be here again after a looong break!  Glory to God. Someday  I will share the story..b ut for now let's get down to business. What's up with Nigeria currently: Depressed Economy!

Recession is a shot in the arm, it’s a wake up call, not a death sentence but it’ s a time for us to think deeply about what we must do to take us out of the woods.It is a time to spend massively, but wisely. We need to reduce government involvement in many aspects and bring in the private sector.

 

Agriculture is the next destination to a great future. We must embrace it with both hands. Private institutions, government need to pay attention to the huge potential that lie untapped, unharnessed in Agriculture. If we settle down and do what’s right with Agriculture –it will become a liberating step for us as a nation in terms of creating employments. Raw materials come from Agriculture and we can use that to revive some of the industries that have become comatose. Agro based industries in focus. We must increase agricultural and food productivity so that the country does not need to import these things anymore. Export is not happening for us as a nation, a few private institutions or individuals are trying but being frustrated with unnecessary business limiting policies. We need to create the enabling environment for businesses to thrive which begins with each person.... The world is big enough for everyone to do their best bits. It is possible to have a great prospering Nigeria if we are not being gripped by corruption which to me amounts to greed, selfishness and mismanagement. It is an understatement to say that Nigeria is blessed. We are overwhelmingly buoyant in natural resources. Let’s tap the natural resources, harness the skills and creativity of the people. It is awful to allow all these to lie waste.

You cannot tell people who have known and experienced quality to step down and patronize mediocrity in whatever form; quality is quality anywhere, good is good anywhere and bad is bad anywhere. Local or home made products are all good but we need to understand that before our goods can compete favourably with other products in developed countries, they should be at par, we must think and have quality and we can even become extraordinary in the way we conduct our businesses. It is not enough to just produce… Get ISO standard stamp on our products to meet international standards; quality issues must be settled I reiterate. Exports should be made cheaper; import costlier: we don’t necessarily need to devalue the naira to achieve this. Service is a product and we can export it as well, for example the brain, creativity and skills of the people, handwork, etc., services both from government and the people. Introduce stabilizers in the system: We must produce and process for consumption and also adopt standards that will enable us to export what we produce to drive revenues. Planning is important in the sense that whatever savings we have made should be used to create channels for generating income for the nation. We should have used the oil money to develop the Agricultural sector of the economy; we would have fared better by now. If we want to handle Agriculture properly we must take care of the problems that can hinder us as a nation to make that venture a success, e.g., provision of infrastructures: Transport facilities, good network of roads, etc so that food can be supplied to any area on a timely basis, train the farmers to handle sophisticated and specialized farming equipments and machines for better results this will attract young graduates to engage in Agriculture, provide storage facilities so that perishables can be preserved and sold at good prices to minimize wastage.

Entrepreneurship is a good step for the nation, check out the excerpts from the book: Breaking the Bondage of Employment by Nath McAbraham Inajoh Senior pastor of the Church of God Mission is an eye opener: “If you want to become rich, you must work for yourself. I don’t know any millionaire employee” says Femi Oke former CNN staff. 

It might interest you to know that your Creator wants you to be an employer of Labour. So the first right step for you to take is to think Entrepreneur. The money you make from working for building someone else dream is to plan how you can get to establish yourself in your vocation. In the scriptures, one of the indices used to describe the extent of prosperity for the people of Israel during the time of King Solomon, was that the people were not compelled to seek employment anywhere as each was self-employed. 1 Kings 4: 25 says: “During King Solomon’s lifetime, Judah and Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, lived in safety, each man under his own vine and fig tree.” Stay inspired!