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My Farmer Dream

 I HAVE A DREAM

My vision of a new Nigeria farmer is built on my vision of a new Nigeria agriculture. I have outlined some of the strategic actions we need to take to achieve the new Nigeria agriculture. 
I have a dream of the new Nigeria farmer. And I believe that with all the initiatives and interventions I have outlined, that dream will someday soon become a reality. 
I dream of a day when farming would no longer be regarded as a means of survival but as a business in its own right with all the potentials and possibilities that come with any other business.
I dream of a day when graduates of Accounting or Banking and Finance would prefer to own and run their own farms rather than seek banking jobs; a day when young men and women who hold degrees in Engineering or any other degree for that matter, would opt for a career in farming, not because they have no options but because they regard farming as a more lucrative enterprise. 
I dream of a young man or woman in jeans and t-shirt walking into a bank with his laptop. And on his computer he is able to make a cash-flow analysis and other business arguments to persuade a bank to give him credits based on demonstrated profitability of his farming venture. And 
I dream of a day when bankers would be milling around farms, seeking business and competing for farmers’ bank accounts.
I dream of a Nigeria farmer that is capable of taking advantage of technologies and products of research to multiply his yield; when from one hectare, he would harvest ten tonnes of maize and 40 tonnes of cassava. 
I dream of a Nigeria tomato farmer who would not be satisfied with his job until he is able to harvest, process and package tomato and have them sold online. 
I dream of a new Nigeria farmer with a minimum of 50 hectares of land, who applies 100kg of fertilizer at the right time, instead of 7kg when it is too late.
I dream of a day when the children of the rich will take to farming and the children of the poor will not seek to escape from the farm, a day when farms would be run by the 5th and 6th generations of family owners, a day when not 70% but only a fraction of our population would be involved in agriculture and would use this to feed the rest of the country and export.

The Nigeria farmer of my dream is one who is familiar with products of agricultural research and innovation, and he is able to use it to expand his productivity and profitability. 
He can farm all year round because has the benefit of irrigation. 
He is able to integrate forward through value-added activities like processing, packaging all interwoven into an electronic agricultural commerce. 
He can stand proudly anywhere in the world and say, I am a new Nigeria farmer.

That is the farmer of my dream.

DayDone LLC



Sponsored by DayDone LLC an Agric ecommerce company in Ibadan, where you can have your farm digitized and have farm produced delivered to your doorstep

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