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#AGRICULTURE by its very definition and Foundation is Nothing Without Population. The Argument That Mechanization is Needed for Agriculture to be Effective is not The Silver Bullet. From History, Rural Communities by The Very Concept of Subsistence Farming is and have always

2. been a Formidable Component of Sustainable Economic Development. Let us look at this Scenario, if There are Basis Laterite Roads, Backed With Electricity and Supported With Mini Dams in All 774 Local Government Area of Nigeria, You Will Add Over 7% to Our GDP and Cut Down

3. Rural and Urban Unemployment by More Than 5% Without Needed Advance Agro Machineries.

My Position is not Against The Mechanization of Agriculture in Nigeria. It is in Understanding what Must Be Done First in other for Sustainable Agriculture to Take Hold. Our Population

4. can be a Blessing and Not a Curse. We Must Look up Examples That Mirors Our Situation and Seek History That Works, Not History That Ridicules. Population Drove Surplus Production in the First Industrial Era Not Mechineries. The Quest for Cheaper Labour and New Markets Led

5. to Slavery and Colonialism not The Need for Mechineries. All of The Known Agrarian Industrial Revolution Were Population Driven.

The Most Effective Ways to FastTrack Economic Development in Nigeria Today is Via Agriculture and The Foundation is Not in Mechanization but in 6

6. Nationalistic Educational Program That Must Be All About an Agro Centric Infastructure. I Have seen Communities in Vietnam Without Tractors, Combine Harvesters And Planters Producing 500,000tons of Paddy Rice Annually. We Have Seen Rural Communities in China Generating

7. Billions of USD in Export Annually With Minimal Machineries and Massive Population Utilization.

This is the Same Argument I Make With Cattle Herders in Nigeria. The Position Supporting Ranching as an Immediate Solution Almost Always Ignores The Cost Factor, The Relationship

8. Factor and The National Factor. The Solution Must First Ask? Why Do we Have The Problem Between Herders and Farmers? Limited Resources and Tribal Ethnocentrism are DKey Challenges. DEconomic Answer Cannot Therefore Come if government leave The Solution to The Private Sector.

9. In Any Case, The Solution Must Be Foundationed on a Hybrid of Open Grazing and Government Enabled Ranches B4 Private Sector Comes 2D Table. There is Therefore No Sustainable Economic Solution Without a Viable Social Process.

If You Buy 1m Tractors Today, 1m Harvesters Today,

10. 1million Greenhousing Units Today and Every Machines Necessary To Make Agriculture Profitable, What Will Happen to The Infastructure Needed to Power Those Procurements? Are You Going to Import Labour as Well? If You Will What Would You Have Done if Not To Keep Empowering

11. Western Economies to the Detriment of Your People? What Asia Did Was to Major in Nationalism, Train Their People in the Act of Maximizing The Strength of Their Population & Use Those Same People in Developing The Technology Necessary to Make Agriculture Sustainable over the

12. long haul and A Source of Major Economic Growth.

We Need Mechineries, But We Need Manpower Development and Upgrade More. 'Corgito Ergo Sum' I Think Therefore I am. Africa Must First Think of Solutions That are Premised on our Competitive Advantages. If Na Land We Get

13. Make We Farm Am Complete, As We Farm We Will Think of Making The Machineries Necessary to Grow and We Must Discourage The Importation of Technology because it is at the Heart of Neo colonial Destructiveness. The Hydroponic Technologies Sold To Africa From The West Has Always

14. Been in Rural Nigeria for Generations, The Issues Have Always Been That We Have Not Been Educated in National Development, But in Administration of Colonial Interest. Toyota Was Rejected in the USofA in the 1950s, As Early as The 1980s, Made in China Was not Good Enough and

15. Today Locally Fabricated Machines in Nigeria are Ridiculed By Internal Economic Sabotuers. Look at China and Japan, Their Solutions Was People First and Technology Later.

The Only Thing Common in the All of the Above is that Development Must Be Localized to Be Sustainable.

16. Our Sons and Daughters Hate Farming and Agriculture, Our Policy Makes Sees More Future in The Oil and Gas Industry That Has Perpetually Underdeveloped Our People, Our Elites Prefer to Spend All Their Energy in Socio Political Sagacity Rather Than Focus on #NIGERIAFIRST,

17. #NIGERIAONLY and #NIGERIALWAYS. We Are All ignoring What is at the core of our Challenges and Focusing or Reacting to What we are Made to Believe Works. Our Population is not the Problem, Our Mind is The Issue and Until The Mind is Thinking Afro Centric Solutions to The

18. Nigeria National Question, Our Nation Will Not Win The War of The Minds in This Generation.

We Were Once Told That Precision and Smart Bombs Will Make Wars Faster, Easier and Less People Will Die... History Has Proved That Wrong. The Same People Who Developed Their Nations

19. Through Aggressive People Powered Farming Told us to Go With Organic Farming and Mechanization. We Know What Happens When You Buy Machines From The West and We Know What Nigerians Have Lost With Organic Farming. Cocoa Farmers Did not Lose $1billion in 2018 Because of

20. Population or Technology, They Lost Because Africa is Not Processing What We are Cultivating. We Have to Start and Fail but Continue using Raw African Technology and Solutions Before We can Grow. #NFGCSFARMS Has Turned Down The Opportunity for About $10million in Funding

21. Because The Financiers Wanted The Farm to Export What We Will Cultivate, WE SIMPLY SAID NOT AGAIN.

Too Many of our Elites have Been Educated in Subjective Neoliberal Dialectics With Weak Afro Centric Nationalism. We Must Change That and Look Inward.

22. If The Price of Rice at N25, 000 For 50kg Will Not Make Nigerians Open up Rural Nigeria First and Empower a Willing Population, Mechanization Will not be The Solution.

WHEN WE WAN WELL... WE GO KNOW!

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