03/10/2024
October 1st Graduation ceremony at my farm, part of my speech...
It is with great honor to stand before this huge gathering composed of the highly respectable individuals, institutions, parents, my fellow youths and the community at large. In this regard, I would like to thank every single soul who have set their time aside to attend the first and big graduation ceremony to ever happen at my institution, FarmBoy AgriLife.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to take you through our who I am agriculturally in a brief note. As mentioned earlier on, I am FarmBoy AgriLife, a name I got during my early farming years back in 2019. The name entails full engagement to farm life because that is the humanity's initial industry given down to us by the Almighty after creation. Here, ladies and gentlemen, we practice 'Circular Economy Agriculture for Sustainable Development.' In the layman's terms, it is simply agricultural practices which aims at cost cutting while growing the profit margins by recycling the so called waste products back into the system, such as chicken manure which we use to make chicken manure soup as a top dressing fertilizer.
We are also a technologically driven institution as evidenced by the use of drip irrigation system enhanced by green energy water pumping system. Kurima imvura, and as you can see, our farm is not totally green because the El Nino phenomena caused our water table to drop drastically especially during this summer where water demand is high for our operations and domestic use by the surrounding community. Statistics show that we provide water to more than seventy families in a single day, whilst our crops demand water too.
My fellow countryman, I would like to appreciate the YSTEP Program being implemented by WEZ-LEAP, FARM and USAID - US Agency for International Development, for according my fellow youths an opportunity to realize their full potential and capacity, thereby contributing in building their self esteem and the resilience of the
