Students seek funding for colleges of agriculture

Students’ leaders at the Federal College of Agriculture in Akure, the Ondo State capital, have appealed to the Federal Government to fund agricultural institutions. Students’ Union Government (SUG) president Sunday Balogun, and Chief Judge Tobi Adewole, said agricultural colleges should not be excluded from the fund being given to higher institutions by Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFund).

In a joint statement, the students’ leaders described agriculture as the bedrock of developed nations. They advised the government to focus more on training of professional farmers to make the nation the food basket of Africa.