{"id":17298,"date":"2026-06-20T12:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/dg-sanginga-i-didnt-want-to-be-a-farmer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:49:49","slug":"dg-sanginga-i-didnt-want-to-be-a-farmer","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/dg-sanginga-i-didnt-want-to-be-a-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"DG Sanginga: I didn\u2019t want to be a farmer\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"In the July edition of the monthly E-Magazine of the\u00a0World Farmers\u2019 Organization<\/a>\u00a0F@rmletter, DG Nteranya Sanginga revealed that crude agricultural practices made the sector unattractive to him as a young boy in the DR Congo.\n
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DG Sanginga: I didn\u2019t want to be a farmer\u2026<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\u201cAs a farm boy growing up in the DR Congo, I have experienced and seen how farming can be a backbreaking and labor-intensive chore for my family and the millions of African smallholder farmers. That\u2019s why I chose not to be a farmer,\u201d DG Sanginga recounted.\n\nBut thanks to modernization, DG Sanginga says he is fulfilled today working in the sector, assisting young men and women to create profitable business ventures from agriculture and helping to better the lives of millions of smallholder farmers around the world dependent on the sector to eke out a living.\n\nHe also said the rich climatic and arable land endowments of sub-Saharan Africa are resources that could be channeled to make agriculture more innovative, exciting, and profitable.\n\nDG Sanginga emphasized the need for the youth to dominate the agricultural value chains, noting that for a sector that feeds the world and ensures food and nutrition security, the involvement of vibrant young men and women should be unquestioned.\n\nHe cited the\u00a0IITA Youth Agripreneurs<\/a>\u00a0(IYA) as ambassadors of the sort of change that modern-day agricultural practices require and said that the IYA model is a testament that when empowered, young people can turn a seemingly unattractive venture into a goldmine.\n\nDG Sanginga enjoined relevant stakeholders, policymakers, and communities to rise up to the challenge and to support, promote, and replicate the model.\n\nHe also prescribed that stakeholders should provide institutional support, training, access to finance, land, favorable policies, programs and infrastructures that would enable the youth to see farming as a business and also motivate them to take up agriculture on a commercial scale.\n\nHe concluded by advising that \u201cthere should be a determined effort to ensure that the younger generations tap into the potentials of agriculture. That is the only way we can save the agriculture sector, ensure food security, and increase agricultural productivity when our ageing farmers are gone.\u201d Read the full feature\u00a0here<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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