Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies: Home

Abstract:
This paper review machinery and equipment developed for the future farmers. The purpose is to expose students and lecturers to the level of education required to produce higher quality crops to feed the growing population. The study significantly encourages the adoption of urban farming as a way of using technology to produce more food by city dwellers. The paper recognized the activities of smallholder farmers who are the main food producers of Nigeria and absence of large scale farmers who are raw materials producers for factories. The paper placed emphasis on the role of modern technology in increasing farm product by small scale farmers and the benefit from the innovations that will enabled farmers solve some of the world�s biggest challenges. The introduction of aeroponics for the production of healthy yam seeds and the use of mobile technology and social media for farming purposes prove technology as a welcome tool that students must understand to apply. The potential impact of this work is in the awareness it will create for the youth who are future farmers that farming can be made easy and profitable if technology is applied. This paper concluded that food security of the future can be sustained if agricultural scientist embraces and teach the farmers the right technology at the right environment to solve the world food need.

Keywords: aeroponic, education, food insecurity, technology, world food

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