Very importan issues here. In many countries, including mine, governments are desperately trying to get people to cultivate the land. They see now the problems that over population in urban areas create and the devastating consequences of abandoning agricultural land.
It takes knwledge, hardwork, and (why not?) vocation to be a successful farmer.
My father was a national guard, but he came from a family of farmers. at the end of his military career he bought a patch of land along a river and started crating a cocoa farm.
He did a great job in turning that bamboo forest into a decent cocoa plantation, but he did not count on how much work keeping it clean and healthy would be needed. His sons were too busy going to school or away trying to make a living and local hands were too lazy adn concerned about other affairs.
Robbers did the rest. He ended up selling cheap.