The Agricultural narrative in an African setting
I had to put a long thought in my first post after my long absence, deciding on a topic to discuss and I finally chose to address the issue of Agriculture and its developing cycle in African countries. It is my hope that this article will not impress you but rather impress upon you as you read along word after word. Lets jump straight into the topic, why is agriculture in Africa still where it is today? For a very long while, there has been less informed and calculated approaches when it comes to Africa's agricultural terrain, a problem which has developed into a system of recurring events in our modern conventional dialogues. Hitherto there has always been the age old problems of bad roads, post harvest-handling losses, lack of market linkages/access, lack of mechanization, dependence on rainfall farming, zero agro-insurance covers, lack of industries to process raw materials, and many others. Obviously these old challenges facing the sector has to be addressed, and the need to b