Moved by passion to inculcate the culture of farming in Nigerian youths, the wife of Olu of Warri, Olori Atuwatse III, has renewed the call to bring back school farming into the curriculum of secondary schools in the country as a way of encouraging the young ones to take to farming early enough as an alternative means of self-sustenance.
She made the call at the flag off of a sizable farmland at the Dom Domingos College, Edjeba, in Warri South local government area of Delta State tagged “Love Garden.” Olori Atuwatse III maintained that regardless of whatever level of education one attains in life, farming remains very key in boosting the revenue base of any nation and individuals.
She explained that her secondary school ‘Love Garden’ initiative which had been on for the last two years was designed to stimulate farming awareness in youths irrespective of gender at a very early age so that when they grow up they would have gotten used to the methodology of nurturing small scale farms even at their comfort zones.
“This initiative is an intensive campaign for the resuscitation of school garden in institutions of learning in Delta State and Warri kingdom in particular because it remains a feasible way of stimulating the interest of youths in practical agriculture at their tender age.
“Through school farms, students can also support in serving their immediate families, communities and the nation because they would be making money from the sales of the leftover of some of these farm produce after they had been well fed,” she said.
The Olu’s wife noted that the school farming could serve positive roles in building confidence and entrepreneurial skills in children, adding that as a farmer watching a seed you planted grow and blossom requires a whole lot of discipline, painstaking efforts and endurance which she said are traits of future leaders.
