AGRICULTURE THE FOOD BASKET OF THE WORLD

 

   Food is a universal necessity for all, every one, old, young, male or female are totally subjected to different type of food for survival. Food is any nutritious substance that people or animal eat or drink or that   plant absorb in order to maintain life and growth. Food is consumed to provide nutritional support for all organisms. All the nutritional support needed by all organisms are found in all the classes of food such as

Ø Carbohydrate

Ø Protein

Ø Vitamin

Ø Fat and Oil

Ø Mineral Salts

Ø Water

   To achieve world food independence and wipe away poverty in the world, special attention has to be given to the business of agriculture. A Nation that cannot feed her citizens is a failed nation. Agriculture is known as the science or practice of farming, which include cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, food, wool, raw materials and other products.

   Africa as a continent and Nigeria as a country have the potentials to feed the whole world because of the arable lands and natural resources endowed by the ALMIGHTY GOD. In 2017 at the United Nation general assembly in New York, Nigerian business leader and the richest man in Africa Alhaji Aliko Dangote told investors that through Agriculture Africa can become the food basket of the world and can also provide million of jobs to the world here by altering the world economic equilibrium.

   Branches of Agricultural practices such as

Ø Agronomy

Ø Horticulture

Ø Agricultural Engineering

Ø Agricultural Economics

Ø Animal Science

Ø Soil Science

Ø Biotechnology

Amongst other. Collectively provide the required expertise for a developed economy, raw materials for industry, food for the masses, feed for animals. The impoverished masses, poverty, food insecurity, will vanished the globe if mechanized agricultural practice is employed by the masses.