Experts task government on investment in agriculture sector

Varsity lecturers have charged the Federal Government with adequate funding of the agricultural sector towards the speedy realisation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

The dons equally advised that government should urgently tackle rising food insecurity amid the nation’s geometric population growth. They made the call at the second International Conference of the Faculty of Management and Social Sciences (FM and SS), Lead City University Ibadan.

A professor of economics, Evans Osabuohien, from Covenant University, noted that investing in agricultural value chain would significantly impact the SDGs and tackle food insecurity. He said it would also offer viable opportunities to engage the sector productively.

According to him, the realisation of about 10 SDGs, includes good health, clean energy, good jobs, as well as eradication of hunger. Vice-Chancellor of Lead City University, Prof. Kabiru Adeyemo, maintained that education was critical, as it is a major driver of the SDGs especially, in alleviating poverty.

Convener of the conference, Prof. Omolara Campbell, who spoke on the conference theme, ‘Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2030: Approaching Possibilities through Socio-Political, Economic and Management Dimensions’, said everyone was relevant to the actualisation of the SDGs.

She stressed that the multidisciplinary related contributions of the conference would prevent the distortion of the national progress by the political, environmental, economic and security challenges experienced in the post-pandemic era.