What is it about agriculture in Africa?

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• Frank Eshun 10 years ago

  This is a thought-provoking article, but is so sad that the message will fall on deaf ears.Our greedy,self-centred,short-sighted and property-acquiring politicians have misplaced priorities.God,save my nativeland !

  This is a thought-provoking article, but is so sad that the message will fall on deaf ears.Our greedy,self-centred,short-sighted and property-acquiring politicians have misplaced priorities.God,save my nativeland !

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• C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

  Stephen,
  
  This has been here since yesterday but has garnered only a single comment. So sad! Was it Woyome or some other mundane issue, you'd have seen scores of comments, mostly from brainless blokes. Just as well they kep ...
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  Stephen,
  
  This has been here since yesterday but has garnered only a single comment. So sad! Was it Woyome or some other mundane issue, you'd have seen scores of comments, mostly from brainless blokes. Just as well they kept away.
  
  Anyway, I find your piece too generalised. It is a regurgitation of known facts and known solutions, thus like a cliche.
  
  The problem of agric in Africa is multi-faceted and linked irrevocably to rural devt. Or, what I'd term Rural Transformation, since what I have in mind goes beyond the usual platitudes such as the farmers are old or ageing (heard that since the 1970s when in sec. schl. Why are they not all dead by now?), getting the youth into agric (really? all?), advancing credit to farmers (finance to all the peasant farmers?), markets, preventing pre- and post harvest, storage, etc., etc. Of courses these are necessary but not sufficient to serve as incentives to transform agric in Africa.
  
  What about good access roads, treated water, electricity, decent accommodation instead of those rain beaten and collapsing mud hovels, good schools with trained teachers, good health facilities with nurses and doctors, leisure centres, and the myriad of goodies the urban areas have access to?
  
  Andy-K

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