Chairperson of the Association, Professor Folusho David Abraham disclosed the plan while speaking on the 62nd Annual conference of the association, which took place in Kano. Prof Abraham explained that the idea of establishing incubation centers in faculties of agriculture was initiated to provide veritable avenue for practical training of agricultural entrepreneurship for the students. The chairperson who decried lack of evidence-based training facilitates in Nigerian universities, a development she insisted was responsible for dearth of professional farmers in agricultural business. Already, Prof Abraham hinted that plan had been concluded for the review of academic curriculum from basic theory to reflect practical orientation. According to her: “Inauguration of the first set of five benefiting faculties will take place before the end of the year and additional four faculties have already being selected.

Source: The Guardian July 31, 2018 06:11 UTC