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AGRIBUSINESS:KEY TO
PRODUCTIVE YOUTH
EMPLOYMENT

Outline of Presentation
Objectives of training
Introduction
What is agribusiness?
Types of agribusiness
Reasons for youth involvement in agriculture
Opportunities for youth in agribusiness
Conclusion

Training Objectives
Define agribusiness
Define value chain
Identify reasons for involving youth in
agribusiness
Itemize available opportunities for youth in
agribusiness

Introduction
Agriculture has become an especially unattractive
sector, due to a combination of youth attitudes and
perception, lack of investment from the government
and inability to incentivize the involvement of a
younger generation. Young, ambitious people have
never looked at agriculture as a source of income and
livelihoods because they think it is meant for the old
and does not make a good living.

Nigerian Youth’s Perception of
Agriculture
 Perception of agriculture as a job for poor people.
 Parental influence on the youth to move out of farming.
 Continuous poor harvests and soil degradation.
 Youth see agriculture as an occupation of last resort
Agriculture seen as job for idlers.
 General dislike of village life.

Introduction/2
According to the Nigerian Bureau of statistics(2016),
the national unemployment rate is 13.9% with the
Nigerian youth accounting for more than 25%.
Increased involvement of youth in agricultural
activities will help reduce the problems of the ageing
farm population and increasing youth unemployment.
This is where agribusiness comes in, it is a growing
industry that provides wide range of career options.

Introduction/3
Agribusiness has various activities involved that
provide gainful employment for youths.
It cuts across different chains and different interest,
which leaves youth with a range of options to choose
from, although it is not as rosy as it appears, it
requires lot of dedication and hard work.

What is agribusiness?
 Agribusiness is the business of agricultural production. It
involves agrochemicals, breeding, agro-service
provision, crop production (farming and contract
farming), distribution, farm machinery, processing, seed
supply, ICT, capacity building, and transportation, as
well as marketing and retail sales.
 Agribusiness encompasses all activities that are relevant
to the eventual production, transformation/value adding,
distribution and retailing of food, fiber and associated
products. It is a business that earns most of its revenue
from agriculture.

Prospects of Agribusiness
 For agriculture to be sustainable, needs to be viewed
as a business
 Agribusiness – A business introduced in all aspects of
agriculture – inputs (seeds and fertilizer), farming,
processing, marketing, distribution, and sales etc.
 The youth – greatest education, enthusiasm and strength
– get few opportunities to apply talents
 Agribusiness offers realistic opportunities for food
security, job and wealth creation for young people.

Major types of agribusiness/1
Agribusinesses fall into many different types, which are
largely derived from their products or what they do. The
common types of agribusinesses in Nigeria include the
following:
 Crop production
In this type of agribusiness, the businesses are engaged in
the production and selling of crops like wheat, maize,
cabbages, cowpea, millet, cassava, soybean, rice,
groundnut etc. This type of agribusiness may be carried
out on a large scale or on a small scale

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 Livestock production
In this type of agribusiness, the businesses are engaged in
the rearing and selling of different animals for their meat
and other products like milk, hides and skins, etc. In
Nigeria, the animals commonly reared by such businesses
include goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits, etc.
 Poultry keeping
In this type of agribusiness, the business concentrate on
rearing and selling different types of birds for their meat,
eggs, skins and feathers. In Nigeria, the birds commonly
kept include chicken, turkeys, ducks, guinea fowls etc.

Major types of Agribusiness/3
 Aquaculture/Fish farming
This is one of the fastest growing enterprise in agribusiness.
Youth can explore fish feed production, fish production and
fish processing.
 Agricultural support businesses
In this type of agribusiness, the businesses provide
support services to agribusinesses. Such businesses
provide extension services, inputs like fertilizers, drugs,
ICT, capacity building etc.

Value chain
One of the central ideas of the Agricultural Value-
Chain concept is the differentiation of the total agro
system and the specialization of each element so as to
optimize the entire system.
Agric-food Value Chains are designed to increase
competitive advantage through collaboration in a
venture that links producers, processors, marketers,
food service companies, retailers and supporting
groups such as shippers, research groups and
suppliers.

Pictorial representation of a
value chain

 Age
 Diversity of Agribusiness
 Reduction in unemployment
 Reduce importation of agricultural commodities
 Literacy and ICT Savvy (skills)
 Reduction in rural-urban migration
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Reasons to Involve Youths in Agribusiness

Reasons to Involve Youths in
Agribusiness/1
Age
There is compelling evidence of ageing farmer
population in the country which must be addressed to
facilitate sustainability in agriculture production.
Majority of farmers who practice farming are in the
age range of 46-55 years and this has not encouraged
sustainable productivity. Hence, increase productivity
in agricultural sector depends on the youth whose
energy and numbers provide tremendous
opportunities for increasing agricultural productivity.

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Diversity of Agribusiness
Agribusiness is a business introduced in all aspects
of agriculture. It involves transformation of
agricultural raw materials into industrial products
involving different value chains and agriculture value
chain provides plenty opportunities acting as grounds
for diversification. Hence, agribusiness will spread
the risk farmers face, increase returns for farmers, and
this will improve their standard of living.

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Reduction in unemployment
A value chain is a basis for a chain of activities that
will involve manpower. Agribusiness involves value
chain for various agricultural produce. It’s a one-stop
shop where a range of service offerings to be
exploited by youths as business awaits. Therefore,
agribusiness will keep youths productively employed
in agriculture

Agribusiness/4
Reduce importation of agricultural
commodities
Nigeria as a country has little participation in global
agribusiness except as an importer, with aging
farmers, and no usage of new technologies or large
scale mechanization will make Nigeria a nation
without food security. So, youths need to be
passionately involved in agriculture to ensure boost
in food production to meet the need of Nigerian
population.

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Literacy and ICT Savvy
There are constraints experienced by farmers in
accessing available agricultural information from
their sources. This may be due to illiteracy and cost
incurred to access information, poor relations with
extension workers. Hence, the literacy level and ICT
know-how among youths will lead to effective
communication(www.agriculturenigeria.com),reducti
on in cost expended and increased accessibility of
necessary agricultural information .

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Reduction in rural-urban migration
Youths migrate from rural areas due to search for
education and skills acquisition, and the absence of
desirable job opportunities. Increased awareness
about agribusiness to change the negative perception
of youths about agriculture as a venture that can keep
youths productively involved will reduce rural-urban
migration.

Opportunities for Youth in Agribusiness
Few examples of how youth in Agriculture can be involved
in the value chain are as follows:
 Input suppliers (agro-chemicals, planting materials etc.)
 Farm managers/producers/Entrepreneurs
 Processing (value-addition/processing of products)
 Wholesalers/Retailers/Exporters

Opportunities for Youth in Agribusiness
 Researchers (research institutions – public and private
sector)
 Agricultural consultants (communication, extension,
social media specialist , Agricultural tools/machinery,
GIS, GPS, transport, packaging, distribution etc.)

Creating jobs along the Cassava
Value Chain
Mobilization Training Tractor hiring services
Stem multiplication
Fertilizer
distribution
Transportation
Chemical companies
Harvesting operations

• Mobile grater: capacity< 0.5t/day
• Youth and remote areas
Product - wet mash for
gari or fufu
Gari, starch
and odorless
fufu
Physically challenged operates grater
•MPC : capacity 1 t/day
• Women’s Groups
• Capacity:
2t/day-
Entrepreneurs
Gari, flour,
starch, fufu
provides market
Jobs for widows
Processing
Young lady
demonstrates
MATNA:
capacity:
120t/day
Starch,
provides
market

Packaging
Fufu Gari Starch

Conclusion
Of course all of these come with their own hurdles,
but as one article states “Africa has the highest
number of youth in the world, and some of the most
fertile soils – the two combined could be a force to
promote agricultural development!“ Engaging youth
in agriculture will aid in the positive transformation
of agricultural sector.

Quote
• Farming is cool, Agriculture
is the business.
- Chianu Paschal

Thank
you

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