{"id":3308,"date":"2016-09-10T12:18:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T12:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songhai.org\/newsite\/2016\/09\/10\/the-right-to-agriculture-the-beautifl-story-of-a-songhai-trainee-named-mohamed\/"},"modified":"2016-09-10T12:18:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T12:18:23","slug":"the-right-to-agriculture-the-beautifl-story-of-a-songhai-trainee-named-mohamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songhai.org\/en\/the-right-to-agriculture-the-beautifl-story-of-a-songhai-trainee-named-mohamed\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM LAW TO AGRICULTURE, THE BEAUTIFUL STORY OF A SONGHAI TRAINEE NAMED MOHAMED"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tToday, as an agricultural entrepreneur, Mohamed Gbadamassi bet on agriculture to achieve his dream of becoming rich.<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

Our readers would like to know you.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

Mohamed<\/strong>: My name is Gbadamassi Mohamed Taofik (GMT), from the 54th<\/sup> set of trainees at Songhai-Ouando. I completed the training and graduated as an agricultural entrepreneur.<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

Prior to Songhai training, what were you doing?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

GMT<\/strong>: Before Songhai, I was a student. I studied Law at the University of Benin. It was in the 2nd<\/sup> year that I left my Law studies for agriculture. I then joined Songhai.<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

Why this choice?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

GMT: As a kid, I did not like farming because I grew up in town and for me it was a peasant work, a work for the poor. As every time I travel to the village, I observe that farmers are always poor, they are the ones always complaining. So for me, it was a work for the poor while I want to be rich.<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

But, growing up with time, I was studying and I understood things differently. I was member of an association, ACEEMUB (Cultural Association of Students Muslims of Benin). I was the local representative. The association organized an outing that will help us discover and learn things that we did not know. Songhai was one of the sites we targeted; and that is how we made the visit to Songhai. It is then that I discovered what agriculture was in reality. I was impressed and I began to develop interest for agriculture. But I was still in high school.<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

So later I entered the university where, already in the first year, we were almost two thousand (2000) students. I had always thought a lot about my life, and what I would do after my university education. And given the large number of students, I wondered whether anything good could be achieved in such conditions. I remembered the visit to Songhai and I wanted to live that experience again. I then went to Songhai to make inquiries on training fees. I was then informed about the recruitment of a new set of trainees. I applied for the test and succeeded. That is how I began the training in agricultural entrepreneurship at Songhai. <\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

Please share with us how you went through eighteen (18) months of training at Songhai.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

GMT<\/strong>: First, I sincerely thank God, my parents, all those who supported me. I came to Songhai as a blank notebook; I had no knowledge of agriculture. I knew neither the hoe nor agriculture. But with good will and a little courage, I learned a lot about agriculture. These 18 months of training were really difficult because it was a new world for me; it was another way of life. As a student at the university, my problem was to attend lectures, go back home, sleep, and watch series (films).<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

At Songhai, it was not the case. At the very beginning, during the first three months, there was a first stage called discovery phase that really shook me. We worked very hard. Seriously! We were trained to be very dynamic on the field, something I had never experienced. So it was not easy at all at first. But I was willing.<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

I note that my parents did not agree with my choice. They could not imagine that I left my studies to go for an agricultural training. They thought I was going to stay in the village and therefore they strongly opposed my choice. I had to seriously insist. It was really a great dispute between my parents and me. I remembered all this and told myself that despite the initial difficulties of the training in Songhai, I could not afford to turn back. I had to show courage and prove at all costs to my parents that I was right, that I had made the right choice. It is what motivated me and allowed me to really stand and today I completed the training; I learned a lot about agriculture and especially Songhai farm.<\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

And today, are your parents happy with you, with what you are becoming after this training?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

You may read to the full interview by clicking this link : FROM LAW TO AGRICULTURE, THE BEAUTIFUL STORY OF A SONGHAI TRAINEE NAMED MOHAMED <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n \n\n

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