Hello Hive.

Isn't the world Hungry enough?
There are more people who sleep Hungry than those who don't.
As little as a child can be, everyone of us knows how to raise an alarm when hunger strikes. While babies cry for milk, adults might endure for awhile before reaching their hunger endurance limit.
I have equally learned that an average man can only survive for about two months without food. This is to show that food is needed for us to stay alive. Not eating for a day or two will have a direct effects on our bodies, and you don't need an experiment before the results of keeping empty stomach shows up

If food is this important, then how do we get our daily meals? The adults here are well-versed enough to tell us that farming is the only activity that brings good to our table, but are the children of our time exposed to this knowledge? Do they know that the more people pull out of the farms to go for white collar jobs, the hungrier our people and world will become?

A lot of agricultural knowledge has been taught verbally in school but our pupils and students are not exposed to the practical aspect and reality that agriculture is the only way to keep hunger away. The passion to grow the food 🪴🪴 that will feed their world has not been incorporated in them. They all believe that's once they have the money from their other Jobs they can always buy enough food from the market. They do not understand that once there is no farmer to farm those foods there will be nothing in the market to be bought.
Everyone prefers the jobs that will give them huge amounts of money rather than the slow progress of growing their own meals.
Hence farming has now been left in the hands of few people.

Food is necessary for the continuity of life, and this is the job that I engage in outside of the hive
Although I call it the mother of all jobs, it has been faced with a lot of challenges, which has been the reason for the low number of participants engaged in farming. I have been feeding my family with food from my own farm since I was a teenager and learned how to use the hoe and cutlass. I can't remember my family going to the market to purchase grains or vegetables. Even the meat we eat comes from our animal farms, and the vegetable garden we have often kept has been great. The only items we usually purchase from the market are seasonings and detergents.

Growing up in a village setting, it is possible to eat solely harvested foods from our farms without having to spend a dime. I learned how to process harvested food and properly preserve those that can spoil easily. I process different oils for our family consumption: healthy hand-made palm oil, kernel oil, coconut oil, and others we use both for consumption and for other purposes.
The palm kernel oil is very medicinal, and it is used to regulate body temperature in both adults and babies with fever. I remember using it as the only body cream back in the day, but guess what? The oil is gradually going into extinction with the previous generation.

Some vital species of organic food, oils, and crops will most likely go into extinction with the way things are going. Along with all these, I also learned a bit about growing and using herbs and plants to treat various ailments. Farming can also cut across growing fruits, trees, and herbs. Growing trees replenishes the ecosystem, which is another major benefit of farming contrary to the harsh weather conditions we are all experiencing. Farming can in one way rejuvenate the ecosystem.

Evidence of some abundant harvest from last year farming session.

Agriculture is as important to the world as life itself; hence, making the job more lucrative and preserving our farming heritage will save our hungry world. Only recently had I thought to participate in some form of commercial farming to get an idea of the requirements to grow substantial food large enough to feed more mouths than I was already feeding. I hope that everything turns out well and that subsequently we can have more partnerships and young minds interested in farming.