Chancellor of Landmark University and founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, has said that the University is poised to ignite an agrarian revolution in order to attain food security for the country and continent. The Bishop was speaking during the press briefing of the first convocation of Landmark University in Omu-Aran,Kwara State.
The Bishop said that in order to tackle Nigeria’s challenge of low enrollment in agricultural programmes, the university authorities carry out enlightenment visits to secondary schools and also offer scholarship programmes for students of agriculture.
He also said the school’s curriculum makes farm practice mandatory for all students adding that most of what the university consumed as agricultural products were produced by the university. The school also markets its produce to the outside community in order to generate more income.
He said food availability, affordability and security are national issues that could serve as a solution to all other critical challenges facing the nation. “What the people of the country need this time around is abundant food. Once this is done high rate of unemployment will be reduced,” he said.
The chancellor called on Nigerian leaders to redesign various policies to develop agriculture as this will reduce high rate of unemployment and insecurity in the country.