The Air Peace boss said it was high time the country started looking at agriculture as the anchor of the economy as against oil currently the mainstay, which would be exhausted one day. “The earlier we start looking the way of agriculture, the best for us; we are blessed with massive land in the north and that is hope of this country in future. “Agriculture is the way to go and it will create massive job employment, if we can key into agriculture with the technology coming from Israel Nigeria will be exporting food. “Even it will become the second oil; oil is extinguishing so the next hope is agriculture and nothing more,” he said. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the event featured a start-up competition for agricultural entrepreneurs.

Source: The Guardian January 03, 2020 13:41 UTC