Africa has the youngest population and highest youth unemployment rates in the world. Every year, 11 million young people join the African labour market but the continent can only generate 3.7 million jobs.The agriculture sector has the potential to absorb the unemployed youth but generally farming is not attractive to the teeming youth especially the university graduates in terms of profitability compared to white-collar jobs.
How can we make agriculture attractive to increase youth participation?
Where should the focus be?
Locally, our schools have begun to incorporate agriculture into the curriculum, starting at the primary level. We don't really know if this will have a measurable impact, but it certainly engages the pupils in hands-on growing.
Refer the following FAO report. It consist some useful information about it.
https://www.fao.org/3/cb5464en/cb5464en.pdf
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