President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday in Abuja urged movie producers in the country to assist government in encouraging the youth to take to farming. Jonathan made the call when a delegation of movie artistes and producers, under the aegis of Legends of Nollywood, visited him at the Presidential Villa.
He said that they could do that by portraying
farming in a positive way in their movies to raise the interest of young
Nigerians to it.
Jonathan said agriculture in the country had
gone beyond poor rural farmers working with hoes and cutlasses as portrayed in
many Nollywood movies.
"Nollywood should endeavour to represent
the farmer as someone with value; they should begin to present farming
differently.
"We have even come up with the National
School Agriculture Programme to make our school children know that farming
these days is not about tilling with hoes or felling trees with axes.
"We want them to know that it is about
using tractors and other modern technologies.
