The United Nation’s Sustainable Goals one and two target to end poverty and hunger by the Year Twenty-Twenty.
Judging from the present high rate of hunger and deprivation in the country, the achievement of these goals appears a tall dream.
In this special report, Ekwi Ajide writes that farmers are still optimistic that it could be achieved in Nigeria if all hands are on deck.
According to a United Nation’s report, eight hundred and eighteen million people of the world’s population are under nourished.
It stated that majority of the world’s hungry people are in developing countries,
such as Nigeria, where twelve point nine per cent of the population is
undernourished.
According to the report, in Africa alone, twenty three million primary
school-age children attend classes hungry.
Even as gloomy as this picture presents, the President of Farmer’s
gloybal Village, Asaba, Delta State, Pastor Anthony Ezeh, insists that agriculture is the single largest employer of labour in the world, which
provides livelihood for about forty per cent of the world’s population.
He encouraged families irrespective of class or status to delve into
agriculture as another source of income and as well, create jobs for
poor rural households.
Pastor Anthony charged youths to utilize the federal government’s
subsidy for small and medium farming to change the narrative as according to him, mechanized farming has made today’s farming better and easier.
On her part, a fish farmer, Mrs. Joy Obasi, said for Nigeria to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal and end hunger in the country, every family must have at least a garden at their backyards.
Mrs. Obasi added that since she started farming, her family has never
gone hungry.
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