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RE: What Are The Long Term Metabolic Effects Of Childhood Malnutrition?
No, the country is over dependent on fossil fuel exploration. So other things like agriculture are relegated to the background. In the '70s, agriculture was the mainstay of the country with us exporting a lot of cash crops like cocoa, groundnut, palm oil, etc. But the oil - black gold or curse (depending on who you ask) is like a virus that had spread and infected and crippled other sectors of the economy.
That is quite unfortunate and ironic given the huge role fossil fuels play in modern agriculture at every step of the process.
You know there's more money there which appears to be easy to grab. Suddenly, agriculture does not look attractive again. Many will look at you as a poor person who'd gone crazy if you say you are a farmer. But if you work in an oil company, even as a janitor :) you are the man! It's sad but true situation of things.
That's a good summary of how most of the world got into this current predicament.
I guess we never really learn from history. So we are destined to repeat it.