Nigeria’s rural communities are endowed with young men and women
who constitute over 32 percent of rural population. It has been
a major problem to retain this potent force in the rural areas
as they continue to migrate to urban centers hoping for a better
life, which is not usually attainable. Some of the reasons
attributed to why they are quitting the rural areas and farming
profession are: inadequate rural infrastructure and social
amenities, poor living standard of the rural dwellers, non-
lucrativeness of farming and high taste for cities. Majority of
these youth, though, were socialized into farming from their
childhood often abandon the rural communities for urban centers
at the point of youth-hood with the aim of getting white collar
jobs. This situation has made the majority of aged farmers to
remain hopeless on the farms with nobody to take over from them.
Consequently, the rural area is deprived of these youths’
naturally acquired skill in farming and ruggedness for
practicing farming, which should