Transcript tackling youth unemployment in nigeria using agriculture

TACKLING YOUTH
UNEMPLOYMENT
IN NIGERIA USING
AGRICULTURE
BY
SOTONYE ANGA
COORDINATOR,
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 University
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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
growth
• Poverty
• Food crisis
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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
sotonye anga, agribusiness and youth
empowerment group, CASON
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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