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A lesson from Israeli Agriculture System By Godswill Aguiyi  In many African countries, over 80 per cent of their populations are involved in the farming, yet, they remain food insecure and poor. Why? My opinion is that the leaders lack the ideology of nation- building and the people are not cooperating effectively. The purpose of this article is to maintain my position that agricultural production is not in numbers of farmers, but in the scale of production. What I mean by that is that the current campaign by the Nigerian Government for youths to go back to agriculture is misdirected because we already have enough farmers, we only need models to make the already existing farmers more productive and efficient. I spent some weeks in Israel and got amazed at their sophistication and ingenuity; Israel is a country that can confidently say they are really practising agriculture with very few of their population. In Israel, only 2.5 per cent of the population is engaged in farmi...

Agriculture in Nigeria A farmers market in Nigeria. Agriculture in Nigeria  is a branch of the economy in  Nigeria , providing employment for about 30% of the population as of 2010. [1]  The sector is being transformed by commercialization at the small, medium and large-scale enterprise levels. Dynamics The usage of inorganic fertilizers was promoted by Nigerian government in the 1970s. In 1990, 82 million hectares out of Nigeria's total land area of about 91 million hectares were found to be arable. 42 percent of the cultivable area was farmed. Much of this land was farmed under the bush  fallow  system, whereby land is left idle for a period of time to allow natural regeneration of soil fertility. 18 million hectares were classified as permanent pasture, but had the potential to support crops. Most of the 20 million hectares covered by forests and woodlands are believed to have agricultural potential. Agricultural holdings are...