Agricultural Productivity and Poverty Alleviation Issues:The Nigerian Perspective

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dc.contributor.authorUmeh, J.C
dc.contributor.authorLawal, W.L
dc.contributor.authorOboh, V.U
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-21T08:00:35Z
dc.date.available2020-12-21T08:00:35Z
dc.date.issued2006-09-19
dc.description.abstractThis paper reviews the pre and post independence agricultural productivity and pov-erty alleviation issues in Nigeria. Descriptive statistics and secondary data were adopted in the discussion. The review indicated that a laudable performance was re-corded in pre-independence period due to the establishment of model research farms. , Physical rural infrastructures like motor, roads and railways for easy evacuation of farm products, commodity boards for stability of producer prices, promotion of qual-ity of export crops, providing stable market outlet for export crops and generating for-eign reserves. All these resulted in the promotion of employment in both production and post-production of agricultural activities. Rural disposable income was high and this generated high demand for consumable goods in rural areas. Surpluses generated from foreign trade were used to finance a large number of development projects. In contrast, in post- independence period, the structure of rural infrastructure began to collapse with negative impact. Average growth rate for palm oil expenditure between 1935- 1939 was 30.88% and it dropped to 7.5 post-independence. Also, food crop productivity dropped, poverty level rose and food import bill escalated. This paper there-fore recommends the pre-independence model for Nigeria to use. This will encourage increase in Agricultural productivity, income level and consequently reduce poverty.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSelf-fundeden_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/9078
dc.publisherTropical Agricultural Research & Extensionen_US
dc.subjectAgricultural productivity, poverty alleviation, pre & post independence, rural infrastructure, export markets, export cropsen_US
dc.titleAgricultural Productivity and Poverty Alleviation Issues:The Nigerian Perspectiveen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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