An impassioned plea to save our youth (2)

METAPHYSICS aside, there are also pragmatic and urgent reasons to prepare our youths to catapult this nation to agricultural super-stardom. In the first instance, the core character-forming values which are the bed rock of nation-building can be learned and embraced through agriculture, values and behaviours which include hard work, discipline, good judgment, investment of time and resources, responsibility, commitment, tenacity and work-based rewards, to mention a few.