{"id":12810,"date":"2017-10-06T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/?p=12810"},"modified":"2017-10-06T17:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T17:06:18","slug":"recommended-the-new-face-of-farming-youth-making-agribusiness-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/recommended-the-new-face-of-farming-youth-making-agribusiness-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"[RECOMMENDED] The new face of farming: youth making agribusiness \u2018cool\u2019!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"It is important to make agriculture \u2018cool\u2019 in order to attract more youngsters to the sector.<\/strong>\" - Botswana\u2019s Mavis Nduchwa, 33 year old founder of Chabana (Animal Feed) Farms - a grantee of Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The above quote, credited to a successful young Female African Farm CEO accurately captures the important need for African nations to make agribusiness more appealing to younger members of their populations.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, in some countries, like Nigeria, the youths continue to see and hear about farm businesses struggling to stay afloat or closing down e.g. poultry farms affected by scarcity and\/or prohibitive prices of key inputs like Maize, Soyabean etc.<\/p>\n

We need to create more opportunities for those bold enouch to venture into farm business, to record success stories like that of this young lady!<\/p>\n

Read her full story in the interview previewed\/linked below...<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The new face of farming: youth making agribusiness \u2018cool\u2019!<\/h1>\n

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Botswana\u2019s Mavis Nduchwa, 33, owns an animal feed farm that grows grains and legumes<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Run a quick Google search on African women making it in business, and you will rarely find a young woman engaged in rural farming. But Mavis Nduchwa has challenged norms by founding and successfully managing a commercial animal feed farm in Botswana.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n
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\"It is important to make agriculture \u2018cool\u2019 in order to attract more youngsters to the sector.\" - Botswana\u2019s Mavis Nduchwa, 33 year old founder of Chabana (Animal Feed) Farms - a grantee of Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) The above quote, credited to a successful young Female African Farm CEO accurately captures the important need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1375,133,266,814,1440,1753],"tags":[1898,3163],"class_list":["post-12810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurs","category-excel-vb-solutions","category-farm-biz","category-my-dn-travel-news","category-my-ideas-for-making-nigeria-better","category-recommended-websites-articles","category-the-farm-ceo","tag-recommended","tag-the-new-face-of-farming-youth-making-agribusiness-cool"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1038,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12810"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12815,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12810\/revisions\/12815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}