From Chuma Austin,
Enugu
Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) and Chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) Osita Okechukwu has called on the Igbo youths to go back to agriculture, saying that the revenue that would be derived from agriculture can repay the Chinese loan to Nigeria.
Speaking to APC youths in Enugu on Sunday, Okechukwu, urged youths to join the Buhari’s Agrarian Revolution for food security and food exports to China, USA, Saudi Arabia among others.
“It’s high time our youths joined the Buhari’s Agrarian Revolution (BUGREV) for food security and food exports. Methink Nigeria can repay the Chinese loans with food exports. China imports food in billions of dollars annually’, he added.
According to him, “BUGREV is the panacea for food security and food export to China, United States, Saudi Arabia and host of other countries. It is painful that our youths are not engaging sufficiently in agriculture, especially the Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), an arm of Buhari’s Agrarian Revolution devoted to young farmers, women farmers and poor subsistence farmers.”
Okechukwu maintained that with vigour and dedication we can have a big cut from the over $50 billion dollars China use for food imports. Is it not embarrassing that advanced countries like Europe and United States have more food to export than agrarian country like Nigeria. Yet every crop and every livestock on earth is adaptable to one square meter or the other square meter in Nigeria.