Thread by @retsonbiz

#AGBADOVOLUTION: THE IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE IS UNMATCHED EVEN WITH THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CRUDE OIL

We must begin to think Differently as a people to change the fortunes of Nigeria for Nigerians. Let me state from critical examples. If Brazil is Doing about $10billion from Beef.

2. While Australian Livestock Industrial is Worth $72billion in 2021 and we all know that the Dutch Agricultural Commodities Sector is Doing $100billion annually.

China ranks first worldwide in the production of cereals, cotton, fruit, vegetables, meat, poultry, eggs & fishery.

3. Why then or how then can we or should we make the case that until we get the Oil Sector right, We cannot have serious Development?

The Oil Sector has been Underdevelopmental, Destructive and Criminally Damaging to the Progressive Long Term Growth of Our Economy and

4. Socio Political Wellbeing of our people. Meanwhile, one of the Ways to Sustain Our Cultural Heritage is Via Agro Tourism in Major Historical Rural Nigeria Communities.

We Must get off that Madness, Realign Our Progressive Pathway, Refocus our National Development Initiatives

5. and Treat Oil as the Plaque it has Become for The Niger Delta Region and the Nation at Large.

The Productivity of Our Collective Capacity must be defined by the Availability of Our Agricultural Potentials. With Jobs, Revenue, Rural Integration and Massive Industrialization,

6. Oil does not Come Close to Agriculture.

The Nigeria National Question is an Economic Question and IF WE WAN WELL...OIL MUST BE ON THE TABLE, BUT MUST BE A PART OF THE TABLE...NOT THE TABLE!

Even at that, One of the Biggest injustices done to Agriculture is to

7. Make it Part of the Table. Yes, I said Oil Must Not Be the Table but a Part of the Table. But Agriculture Should be the Table.

A Brief Historical Perspective is needed here. The Industrial Revolution was 90% Agrarian with the Exception of Hong Kong that was a Trade Channel

8. Between Mainland China and the West. There is no Recorded Industrial Nation and Phase of Development that Has been as Dominant as The Agrarian Phase and it Continues even today.

The Incredibly Massive Case for Agricultural Revolution particularly for a Young Country Like

9. Nigeria is that an Agrarian Revolution involves so many industrial sectors. The Agbado and Cassava Revolution I Mean as Proposed by @officialABAT and @officialSKSM

What are the Factors that can Drive a Massive Industrial Revolution in Nigeria today?

1. Land,
2. Labour and

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3. Others.

So, Technology, Oil etc will be fully deployed if You Massively active Rural Nigeria Agriculturally. Your Deployment will Need Massive utilization of Technology to Make Agriculture Easier, Better and More Productive.

Refineries Will need to Work to Harness the

11. Massive Opportunities that will Arise from Deploying Machineries to Open up the About 84million Arable Hectares that We Have.

That Land and the Opportunities will Open up Medical Industries, Processing Industries, Technology Industries, Telecommunication Industries,

12. Fabrication Industries, Manufacturing, Education, Fashion, Tourism etc etc.

I Have always made the case that the Fulani Herdsmen and The American Cowboys are One and the Same. But the Americans Rather than Focus on the Sentiments of The Cowboy,

13. Deployed to Commercialize the Cowboy and Today, it is a $500billion Industry of Fashion, Music, Dairy, Beef, Cultural, Tourism and Others.

Do You know and Can you Imagine What we are Losing with the Sentiment of Fulanization, Northernization and Islamization?

14. I honestly believe there is no case to be made to get Oil Right first. Let us Get Agriculture Right and then utilize Oil to Make Agriculture Work.

Nigeria Does Not Have an Insecurity Problem, We have an Economic Problem and It is Mostly Rural and Suburban.

15. Agriculture is the only table to Solve that Problem.
We are 200million People.

A Very Productive Oil Sector cannot Employ 1million of us.

A Highly Productive Agricultural Sector can Employ 1million Nigerians Annually.

IF WE WAN WELL,

16. WE WILL MAKE AGBADOVOLUTION THE TABLE!

I am Retson A Tedheke @retsonbiz
Sarkin Yakin Ga'ate

Convener,
Asiwaju Farmers Forum @AsiwajuFarmers

Secretary,
Agro Commodities Directorate
Presidential Campaign Council
All Progressive Congress @OfficialAPCNg

Managing Partner,
NFGCS FARMS ESTATE Nigeria Farmers Group & Cooperative Society @NGFarmersGroup
Retson Tedheke Way,
Ga'ate Communities,
Kokona LGA, Nasarawa State.

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