What are the best agricultural business ideas for the developing world? What are the best agro-allied business opportunities for big towns and mega cities? What business can one start in the agriculture industry and attain global leadership?  The trending challenge and impact of rural-urban migration have continued to generate great debates since the last three decades. Urban employment problems are a result of the phenomenal growth in urbanization and the inability of these urban centers to be able to utilize or absorb the urban labor that was created through the process of urbanization.

 

Agriculture is fundamental to every country’s prosperity, security and sovereignty. In the United States, farmers, processors, researchers and policy-makers at all levels work together to promote and ensure a vibrant agricultural economy. The result is that Americans enjoy not only an abundant food supply, but also nutritional choices and affordability. Africa is now beginning to understand the critical link between agriculture and prosperity. In Nigeria, we’re making agriculture the new crude oil.

 

Approximately 50% of Nigerians are urban dwellers. At least 24 cities have populations of more than 100,000 Those moving from rural to urban areas constitute certain classes, categories and strata of the society that are basically plagued with certain social and economic problems in which poverty ranks highest and most fundamental. The conference will explore, in details, some lucrative business ideas and opportunities that can shape our food and agriculture economic landscape. Some of the areas of agri-business growth opportunities to be discussed include, but not limited to:

 

• Ecofriendly Technologies - Biopesticide Unit, Biofertilizers

• Plantation Horticultur

• Agricultural Engineerin

• Forestry / Wasteland Developmen

• Fisheries and animal productio

• Agro-processig

• Medicinal & Aromatic plant

• Bio-technology