THE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF EDO STATE. A CASE STUDY OF OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA. A RESEARCH  PROJECT MATERIAL ON ECONOMICS

ABSTRACT

In Igbo, Agriculture use to be the main export product such as cocoa, groundnut, rubber etc that was to generate foreign exchange to the economy? But later in the 1970s agriculture was neglected and left to suffer, this have contribute to the problem of agriculture.

This study is to examine the problem and prospect of agriculture in economic development of Edo State. The objectives of this study are as follow;

1.            To identify the problem facing agriculture in the economic development of Edo state.

2.            To suggest possible solution to the problem that have emanated.

Some of the problem identify in this study are as follows: lack of capital, illiteracy, poor marketing facilities, etc. Some of the hypotheses used for the study are as follows: inadequate funding leads to low productivity, failure to adopt modern techniques of agriculture, practices leads to low productivity. The research methodology includes the use of appendix.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1         BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Agriculture sectors is one of the earliest sector, it starts when man has to survive as gathering of fruits and nuts. He has depended on the natural burning of the forest and water body. It is only recently as perhaps ten thousand year ago that man began to adopt and attempt to domesticate animals and plants. He began the transition from primitive hunting and gathering and the practices of animal’s husbandry and tilling of the land.

At first, he did this unconsciously but as time passed he consciously selected the better forms of animals and pants for breeding purposes. This process has to continue to accelerate to modern times and has gone so far that the common agricultural crops and animals of today are very unlike the wide forms.

In modern times men consciously selected both plants and animals according to the well-established principles of genetic inheritance and breeds form more closely adapted to his requirement.

Agriculture is a sinequanon to any economy for an economy to develop well the agricultural sector must be given a dynamic role to play. Inspite of the important role of agriculture in Edo state, the people or citizen have vague ideal that agriculture is concerned only with soil cultivation. But a more comprehensive definition according to Olyyemi (1975) defined agriculture as the cultivation of soil and the feeding and management of crops and livestock for the use of man, the disposal of those products for marketing.

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THE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF AGRICULTURE IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF EDO STATE. A CASE STUDY OF OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA. A RESEARCH  PROJECT MATERIAL ON ECONOMICS