Any nation that wants to develop must look inwards to identify areas where it has comparative advantage over other nations and seek to develop the identified areas. Apart from hydrocarbon of which Nigeria is the sixth largest exporter of crude oil and has the second largest known […]
Read more →Until the late 1970’s when hydrocarbon was discovered in commercial quantity in Oloibiri, present day Bayelsa state, Agriculture remained the mainstay of the economy contributing over 90% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country as against the less than 40% it now contributes with crop […]
Read more →Nigerian agriculture is characterized by considerable regional and crop diversity. Analysis of this sector, particularly the food sub-sector, is fraught with serious data problems. However, the available statistics provide a broad overview of development in agriculture upon which we can make some broad generalizations about its role […]
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