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    THE MAN-CROPS-MACHINE NEXUS: MEMOIR OF A POSTHARVEST ENGINEER
    (Obafemi Awolowo University Press., 2023-05-09) OGUNSINA, Babatunde Sunday
    Agricultural Engineering is the only discipline in which engineering mates endlessly with agriculture, both fused into a unified curriculum that trains and produces an “all-in-one Engineer” who is well equipped to address ALL problems requiring engineering intervention in agriculture, viz: food production, conservation of soil and water resources, rural livelihoods, livestock production and environmental management. He is expected to harness all resources to ensure security and sustainability. This is the reason why we often pride ourselves as the „Jack of all trade and master of all‟. Most activities related to human livelihoods on this planet revolve - first - around food. It is commonly said in Yoruba that tí ebi bá ti kúrò nínú ìsé, ìsé bùse (i.e. when hunger is subtracted from poverty, poverty tends towards zero) Someone said lack of food is the most critical dimension of poverty). Food in this context refers to anything fit and safe for human consumption and it is as diverse as creation endowed the garden. Adekoya (2014) in his inaugural lecture, pointed that man minus machine is either a labourer or a slave.