The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, University of Ibadan, Chief Adebisi Akande, has suggested the need for educational institutions and private investors to collaborate with states to establish farming-villages in all Local Councils with a view to attracting young graduates into agriculture. Akande, who gave the suggestion in his remarks at the 76th Foundation Day Anniversary and 2024 Convocation Ceremonies of the University of Ibadan, said the multiplier effects would result in the innovative fabrication of modern farming implements. He added that it would also assist in the illustration of practical demonstrations of the essence of academic institutions in using sciences, technologies and management techniques for the promotion of plenteous nutritional agricultural yields and in the attractiveness of business investments in profitable agro-allied industries among the generality of our society.
He said: “We are saying that there are so much disconnects between the Nigerian Universities and the Nigerian agriculture that our farmers are so incapable of feeding our nation. “Just as the government collaborates with the investors to found computer villages in some cities, may I suggest that our educational institutions together with the investors should collaborate with every state to found farming-villages in every local council with a view to attracting our young graduates into agriculture. “The regularity of man’s productivity in farming depends on the robustne.