Youth urged to embrace agriculture as business

Joseph Muturi.

Young people have been advised to take Agriculture just like any other business venture.

Rodgers Kirwa, a farmer in Nandi and a Blaze Mentor in the Agriculture category assured the youth that they can do it in Agriculture adding that other people have made it through it.

“We have made it in agriculture and we are doing things that the youths can get to see, emulate and appreciate,” he said. Kirwa said the youth should do away with the mentality that agriculture is for the retirees and realize that even young people can do agriculture as a business. Agribusiness, he said, is a profession like any other and not for the unschooled or unemployed like many believe but for all in society.

Kirwa spoke in Nyeri during a youth mentorship and empowerment program organized by Blaze at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology.