-Agriculture is a term that is often frowned upon by Generation Y, the generation born in the late 1970s to the mid 1990s. I can confidently assert this because I am a yuppie, the casual term used to refer to this generation.
-Agriculture is a field that a good percentage of us think that it should be left for old folks and mates who were not talented enough academically.
-Right in the university,some of my peers feel doomed after their college admissions came with agriculture related courses.
-They feel less hip compared to their friends who were admitted for Engineering (any other engineering course and not agricultural engineering), Computer Science, Actuarial Science, Law and all those highbrow courses.
-The agriculture students often lamente of a future so bleak save for the few who are passionately pursuing such courses.
-Agriculture has always sounded one of those things that should be left to village folks.
-I can now proudly confess my new found love to be agriculture.Agriculture is green gold for some young people, so I have learnt.
-I am yet to start farming but I am passionate about telling stories about successful young people who play a part in the agricultural value chain: farming, production and marketing.
-Simply because I had a change of heart about agriculture does not mean all my buddies perceive it the same way.
-I have often floated ideas of venturing into agriculture to some of friends and these ideas are politely swept under the carpet. I often get responses such as, “You mean with a degree in engineering you
expect to still do farming?”
expect to still do farming?”
-At such times I find myself tongue tied because I have never found an appropriate answer to give these elite but severely financial unstable Gen Yians.
-In an effort to justify my ‘bizarre’ fascination with agriculture I have embarked on a journey to document stories of young people who have successfully shuttered the myth of farming as an old/poor man’s profession.
-There are dozens of success stories about young people pursuing satisfying careers in the field of agriculture.This blog is dedicated to documenting those stories.
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