 Agriculture is the future and mainstay of the nation's economy. As such, parents must encourage the children to embrace it. Now, this was the submission of the permanent secretary, Minister of Agriculture, Lagos State Hakim Oduien-Kawal speaking at the closing ceremony of the Year 2021 Agricultural Summer School Program, held at the State Agricultural Development Authority, Okoba. Plus TV Africa, Lagos State Government House correspondent, Love Ikuko Oedoko reports that 84 senior secondary school agricultural science students and 13 education officials, including education desk officers, participated in the program. The Agricultural Summer School Program was first implemented in 2011 to further stimulate the interest and awareness of students in agriculture. The students are made to understand that agriculture if well managed is a reputable and profitable business venture that anyone does and never regrets. The permanent secretary, Hakim Adiniji, who represented the Commissioner for Agriculture, Abisola Olusoya advises the students to put what they have learned from the program into practice. You must grab the opportunity that are inherent in what you have done. You see today, what collages are not in there, don't think of it. Now, start thinking of what you can do with your hands. And you are here. Agriculture is the main thing. Adiniji explains further that the program is targeted as secondary schools in Lagos State in order to catch them young. It's a big business and it is very good to always catch them young. Once their interest is sustained at a younger age, definitely it's something that they can sustain when they grow up and become an agrippinion, which is our target. We need to start replacing our aging farmers and the best time to start is to start with students. But students who are very forward, look and show so much excitement and cause and order use to embrace farming. If farming is not something like you need to, even this little experience you have, even though you have another occupation, you can also be a farmer. It's not something you need to study that much. I want to be a lawyer but I will also put farming into it. Agriculture wasn't what I would have ever thought before. Everybody, agriculture, you have to be on the farm, you have to look dirty and the rest. But this is what actually fits humanity. This is the foil for existence. So I don't think I can do anything better. Each batch of participants underwent a day of theoretical training in livestock production, fisheries, crop production, agro-processing, among others. From Lagos, Love Ikuku Uiedoku, reporting for PLOS TV, Africa.