TACKLING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA USING

AGRICULTUREBY

SOTONYE ANGACOORDINATOR,

AGRIBUSINESS & YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

POPULATION

Nigeria has a population of One Hundred and Sixty Million (160,000,000) Million people

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SIZE OF YOUTH

•Over 80 Million youths make up our population

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BREAKDOWN OF YEARS SPENT BY OUR YOUTHS IN SCHOOL

•2 years in Nursery•6 years in Primary•6 years in Secondary•4 years in University10/04/23 Prepared by sotonye anga 4

18 YEARS IN SCHOOL

•What is the value of this education?

•Are the skills acquired during this 18 years employable?

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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

•More than 70% of our youth population is either unemployed or underemployed.

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HAVE YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE?

• I spent 22 years of my youthful life in school, graduated with a degree in History from the University of Lagos, I am 26 years old and i do not have a job!

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WHAT DOES THIS PORTEND?

• Danger!! • Insecurity • Threat to National economic

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THE BIG QUESTION?

•Is our population a blessing or a curse?

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WHAT DOES THIS POPULATION MEAN?

• Large consumer market• Human resource• A tool for economic

development

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LET’S SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY

• 80 Million youths means a great and powerful pool of human resource that must be harnessed and put into productive use in order to boost economic growth and development for Nigeria.

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HOW CAN WE HARNESS THIS POOL OF VIBRANT HUMAN RESOURCE?

1) We need to make Agribusiness exciting, creative and innovative enough to stir and spur youth interest. Many thanks to the Honourable Minister of Agriculture, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina CON for what he is already doing in this regard.

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HOW CAN WE HARNESS THIS POOL OF VIBRANT HUMAN RESOURCE?

2) Raise a new breed of Agripreneurs

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HOW CAN WE HARNESS THIS POOL OF VIBRANT HUMAN RESOURCE?

3) Create multi Agribusiness skills acquisition centres across the county.

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HOW CAN WE HARNESS THIS POOL OF VIBRANT HUMAN RESOURCE?

4) Establish farm settlements and fill them up with youths that will produce different commodities for use as raw materials for our industries and food for our people and exports.

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HOW CAN WE HARNESS THIS POOL OF VIBRANT HUMAN RESOURCE?

5) Encourage youth involvement in value addition to our raw crops

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HOW CAN WE HARNESS THIS POOL OF VIBRANT HUMAN RESOURCE?

6) Deliberately create a finance window to fund youths in Agribusiness and make access to funding easy.

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HOW CAN WE HARNESS THIS POOL OF VIBRANT HUMAN RESOURCE?

7) Invest in modern technology that makes Agriculture less cumbersome.

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OPPORTUNITY IN DISGUISE

Across board, Nigeria ranks at the bottom on agricultural indices

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MECHANIZATION INTENSITY

•10 tractors per 100 Hectares compared to Indonesia with 241 tractors per 100 Hectares.

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ONE WAY TO BUSINESS

sotonye anga, agribusiness and youth empowerment group, CASON

CASON AGRIBUSINESS BASKET

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ONE MILLION YOUTHS TARGET 2013

• In CASON, we have began a very big project, creating a database of Nigerian youths interested in Agribusiness and we will make this database available to policy makers.

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www.casonagric.com

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THERE IS HOPE FOR NIGERIA

THANK YOU!!

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