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Every year, Nigeria churn out graduates who proceed for their NYSC after which majority wants to migrate to Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Enugu and Port Harcourt.
Isreal has a landmass of 20,333 (sqr Km) compare that to Nigeria's 910,768 (according to data from http://world.bymap.org/LandArea.html) which puts them about the same size as Cross Rivers State. That is how different in size we are.

The land in Isreal is not fertile at all, they have to process the land over and over again before they can plant a grain of seed, yet they are boasting and working towards being able to feed the world whereas in Nigeria, even without fertilizer, if you plant anything it can grow. Yet all we want to do is to form sophisticated, sit behind our phones and browse social media all day and complaining in between throughout the year.

It is okay if you do not want to farm, not everyone can be farmers but those who choose the noble profession should be adequately compensated, afterall they have families to take care of, the have medical bills to also pay, they do not forbid buying cars some day in life.

We import pencil, toothpick (that can easily be made from bamboo), import touchlight (made by secondary school girls in China), import Laptop, import phones, import shoes, import pizza, haba.

The things we cannot product either due to lack to technology or resources we may import but Nigeria has no business importing our stable food. Today it is rice tomorrow the next generation may start importing yam.

If you cannot farm, be ready to pay those who can.

Israel can help feed the world
The upcoming Rio conference is an excellent opportunity to showcase Israel’s desire and capability to work cooperatively with the family of nations to promote international health and stability
This week, world leaders and NGOs, along with thousands of individuals concerned with green energy, food security, sustainable agriculture, water, disaster readiness and the environment, will come together at the United Nations-sponsored Rio+20 on Sustainable Development.
Israel, which will be represented by Environment Minister Gilad Erdan, has become a leading powerhouse on many of these issues, and is ready to continue to share its technological innovations and expertise to help feed the world and keep it safe.

It is well-timed but not surprising that Prof. Daniel Hillel, an Israeli water and soil expert, recently won the World Food Prize. This first-time win for an Israeli underlines the fact that Israel, a desert nation once challenged by its arid geography and a population explosion, has developed a range of agriculture and water technologies that are already helping to provide solutions to many of the most pressing problems that will be discussed in Rio.
For decades now, Israeli agriculture experts have been sharing their know-how with some of the fastest growing and wealthiest nations, as well as some of the poorest regions on earth, creating sustainable self-sufficiency in food and water supplies.

Irrigating a field in the Sharon Plain (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
In recent years, Israeli expertise has been heavily in demand in India, Africa and China, together home to more than half the world’s population. Leaders in these vast nations and regions understand that an escalating world food crisis – soaring prices, growing shortages and burgeoning population growth – which has already sparked unrest in North Africa, could be a harbinger of worse things to come across the globe and closer to home.
None of the underlying causes of the growing crisis – population growth, climate change that threatens to flood large areas of cultivated land, rising oil prices, and transport costs – are likely to ebb in the near future. The fact is they will likely be exacerbated.
Examples of smart, feasible and affordable Israeli solutions to these challenges abound.
Seventy percent of the earth’s surface is covered by water, but almost all of it, 97.5%, is saltwater. Israel is subject to this same ratio, and has long been a world leader in desalination, the process that converts salt water to fresh water so it is suitable for human consumption or irrigation. This process is absolutely vital to desert regions like Israel, and in vast swaths of Africa, China and India, where fresh water is in limited supply.
Israel’s irrigation skill, owing to its limited fresh water supplies and meager rainfall in much of the country, has become legend. Israeli companies have become world leaders in irrigation technology, water management and treatment and desalinization. Israel holds the world’s leading rate of water, recycling 75% of its wastewater, mostly for agriculture. As a comparison, Spain, which is the world’s second largest water recycling nation, uses only about 12% of its water in this way.
Israel, long a country that has fed its own population, has invested heavily in R& to increase food production. A startling example of its success rests with the Israeli cow, which provides an average of 11,381 kg. of milk per year, significantly outpacing cows in every nation in the world. American cows yield 9,331 kg, Japanese 7.49, Russian 3,698, Chinese 2,832, Australian 5.601, and European 6.139. Imagine how one cow’s yield can change the lives of families in developing nations if Israeli innovation is used on their farms and homesteads.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-can-help-feed-the-world/

God's people God's favour

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I’m an Israelite don’t call me black no more, the word is only a color it ain’t fact no more.

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OP, stop worshipping Israel. Not good for your health. Lol.

Israel cannot feed itself, much more another country. Israel survives as a dependent of US subsidies but it flexes muscle like it is self-sufficient. Truth is it is not.

Beside that,how does Israel and Nigeria in food production? No link!

Watch yaself!

MetaPhysical:
OP, stop worshipping Israel. Not good for your health. Lol.

Israel cannot feed itself, much more another country. Israel survives as a dependent of US subsidies but it flexes muscle like it is self-sufficient. Truth is it is not.

Beside that,how does Israel and Nigeria in food production? No link!

Watch yaself!

It surprises me also.
A country the size of cross rivers state feeding the whole world
Have they been able to feed their 10 million odd population? Approximately 80% of the grain consumed in Israel is imported from other nations. Besides only about 20% of Israel's land is arable to support agriculture.

This Israel worship by a certain group of Nigerians us embarrassing.

Another dumb thread drowning in inferiority complex and ignorance.