I think agriculture has enormous potential for eradicating poverty, it needs youthful energy and passionate team players. It is on record that Nigeria has over 84 million hectares of arable land, out of which only 40% is cultivated. Estimated at over 180 million people, it is also emerging as Africa’s largest agricultural market. Supported by nature, the country’s crops that could earn huge foreign exchange include beans, yams, sesame, cashew nuts, cassava, cocoa beans, groundnuts, gum arabic, kolanut, maize , banana, melon, millet, palm kernels, palm oil, plantains, rice, rubber, sorghum, soybeans and yams. These have potentials of commercial quantities. These days rather than hustle to get white collar jobs, a large number of youths yearn to be their own bosses, building their own business from the ground up. This entrepreneurial tendency has led many of them to look into farming and other branches of Agriculture. There are quite a lot of examples of this. What are the reasons b