Young people are often under-employed in the Asia-Pacific region. Millions of young people worldwide are unable to find meaningful, stable and well-paying sources of income, with an estimated 73 million young people currently looking for employment. BeBlessed Farm’s Farm2houz helps create opportunities for many youths of the country to participate in agricultural work by having create greater efficiency on various farms that can handle more hands on deck.

Scientific progress, economic interventions, and binding international agreements may very well be the future of farming, but none of these approaches will succeed without buying-in from the farmers themselves, those who matter most. Specifically, young farmers, who are the future of agriculture. Young people are not only tomorrow’s food leaders, but today’s change-makers. It looks at how many organizations around the world are working to make agriculture an attractive and viable career path for young people. The absolute numbers of youth who are dependent on farming or livestock production is likely to increase because of population growth.

BeBlessed Farm’s Farm2houz is keen to be a part of the growing importance of agriculture within our youth and smart agriculture can create for many new opportunities that would bring many benefits towards the farming niche. Creating a strong importance towards how the future of agriculture can vastly change is vital as the farming industry as with any other industry needs the fresh set of minds that are more well versed with know how’s of today.

In addition to that, the programming of youth and agriculture presents a unique opportunity for gender transformation, as adolescence is a pivotal period of life in which gender norms are formed by young men and women. Although there is a growing body of work in agri-food systems on women’s empowerment, the literature does not generally distinguish between different age cohorts or life stages (e.g. household head, child/parental status, marital status, etc.). Empowering young women to take part in the change of the agricultural scene can bring us to new heights.

Decision making can be instilled within the youths as they need to decide what animal to buy, what seeds to plant, what bull to raise your heifer to… There are many different decisions made by young people in agriculture. In addition, they see the decisions taken for the farm on a daily basis, and understand the significance of making a decision and living with the consequences. Many other disciplines and values can be thought towards the future of our nation through agriculture and farming.