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Findings indicate that actors are less familiar with the term nutrition sensitive agriculture, yet they actually know or do what the concept entails.
Therefore, the departments of agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry in the Ministry of Agriculture should regularly conduct training needs analysis and provide in-service training to update the knowledge and skills of extension agents.
Though the regions vary in which these governmental organizations are active, both do similar work to ODEP; providing training in ecological agriculture practices as well as carrying out research in both ecological and conventional agriculture. What emerged in the interviews with government-employed agronomists is that the State's need to maintain the stability and profitability of the current agribusiness for exportation leads to emphasizing independence and ownership over sustainability.
Therefore, youth participation in agriculture training program in malete farm is a circumstantial idea designed to empower the youth in order to acquire some skills in agriculture business.
For example, female farmers involved work in various activities that do not need energy but need to be careful and diligent, including the selection of rice seeds.
The study concludes that urban agriculture will help them in building job skills, improving self-esteem and contributing to community revitalization.
Hence, there is a need to automate agriculture.
Management and valorisation skills of farmers in low land are to be enhanced for a sustainable agriculture in the future.
Findings show that application and learning transfer of agriculture knowledge and skills depend on opportunities availed to pupils at school and homes to practice what they learn.
Agroecology and sustainable agriculture are good places for training in these skills.
It is recommended that all the employability skills be retained or included in the university agriculture education curriculum.
Agriculture should do its part.
We posit that agriculture is linked to soils and natural processes, but that this provides little guidance on what sustainable agriculture should be.
Our analyses point to the need for policies that improve technological uptake in African agriculture.