Demographic facts has it that 70percent of Nigerians are predominantely engaged in agriculture, but it is a thing of common sense for governments to engage on their peoples predominant occupation,by building capacity,manpower,funding and massive micro-credits boost their local and sub local economies;agricultural land is not Nigerias problem as statistics has it that less than 40 percent of of the arable land is in use,yet we find governors whose security votes doubles their budgets for agriculture, as well as some buying expensive private jets, what does this lead us to hunger,starvation,low gdp,unemployment. Considering our country with the highest unemployment rate in Africa, with an inflation averaging 12 percent . Massive investment in agriculture will boost food production,creat massive employments especially through the agricultural value chains and entrepreneurship trends through the young people owning profitable farms armed with skills and know how, Its time the Nigerian people take proactive steps to adress this ugly trend and face the dire consequences of high food price which may not be affordable to the common man in time to come .

Bro, I know you just want to generate some traffic sha, so I will contribute.

Agriculture is probably one sector where GEJ has scored the most points so far. Why many on this forum may not appreciate it is because they are mostly city dwellers doing white collar jobs with no clue of what is going on. As I write this, there is an agricultural revolution going on in Nigeria. The first thing the president did was to remove several bottlenecks that has bedevilled this sector like access to loans and fertilizer. For years, government officials and politicians have been sabotaging the fertilizer distribution. Now you can get fertilizer without stress at government rates.
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Do you know that GEJ has distributed phones to farmers across the country with direct access to an office right inside Aso rock? They can call and make complains or inquiries without any middle man.
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Do you know there is a cassava revolution going on. Many on this forum continue to laugh at GEJ's cassava drive but those who have foresight have already taken the challenge and are making the most of it. I recently registered with a cooperative. As a member of an agric cooperative, you can have access to facilities like farm lands and government aid.
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Please visit the ministry of agric website and get more info. That minister is doing a fantastic job!

READ: http://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=agricultural+transformation+agenda+by+adesina+in+london&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CEUQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newworldnigeria.com%2Fpdf%2FAdesinaLondonBOIForumfinal.pdf&ei=5gbbUNKRC_HJ0AWl_YGYDw&usg=AFQjCNG6v3-hX81L10WXDwiMr2BK_vX9Qw

My friend it is always important u cross check facts before u come to a conlusion,im not here to generate traffic because im not an idol man, i posted this issue because im worried about the effectiveness of government policy on agriculture,all u listed there are functional but not effective,im a field man and im talking out of experience,i was oportuned to coalate the profile of contact farmers on behalf of Nddc for the fedral govt,the number of subsidized fertiller bags that was made available to riverstate farmer is just 12000 bags and we have over 500.000 active farmers,the fedral government alone cannot drive the agro-revolution to achieve results,most states budget for agriculture is little, enough for salaries and over head,the states need to join forces with the fedral government to come up with a strategic master plan or the fedral government will achieve less than 15% success,the budget of agriculture this year was less than 80billion naira,how then do u think the change can come all this policies by the minister may end up affecting an insignificant few,because 98 percent of farmer buy fertillizers at the regular high price.