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A concise report on the Learning by Doing Cross border Agriculture training program between Nigeria and Israel In June 2010,  an NGO, the learning by doing initiative, managed by one Stephanie Anams and chaired by the honorable minister of agriculture, a prominent nationalist and farmer, chief Audu Innocent Ogbeh, came up with a program bearing the following objectives; ü   Expose young Nigerian undergraduates of agriculture and agricultural related disciplines to modern and improved equipment and techniques used in agricultural production ü   Produce new breed of farmers, that will, employ modern and improved equipment and techniques in agricultural production ü   Produce good managers that can manage any farm or that can go into their own business ü   Produce well trained farmers that will make the country to become self-reliant in food production and ü   Extend such development to other sectors of the economy (Abuja news web). As a...

Abstract In Nigeria, the importance of highly trained manpower has long been recognized and has been the basis for agricultural development policies and strategies since independence, and within the last decade, serious efforts were made to make Nigeria self-sufficient and reliant in food production by organizations and institutions within the nation of which the universities were not left out. It was against this background that the cross-border agricultural program was introduced by an NGO called Learning-by-Doing, and was the platform which sa w a batch of fifty agro- students sent to Israel for an eleven months practical programme, in the Israeli’s kibbutzim.  The NGO is chaired by a prominent nationalist and farmer, Chief Audu Ogbe and sponsored by two Nigerians and three Israelis. The organization has the following objectives; which are to: 1.    expose young Nigerian undergraduates of agriculture and agricultural related disciplines to modern and improved eq...