Agricultural Economics of Nigeria: Paradoxes and Crossroads of Multimodal Nature Professor Eric C. Eboh Professor of Agricultural Economics University of Nigeria CONTENTS 1.0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 2 2.0 CONCEPTUAL APPROACH OF THIS INAUGURAL LECTURE 6 REFLECTIONS ON THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY 8 3.0 4.0 5.0 AGRICULTURE FROM THE LOOKING GLASS OF MAN’S ECONOMIC HISTORY 16 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY FROM PARADIGMATIC VIEWPOINTS ABOUT THE STATE VIS-A-VIS MARKET 21 6.0 NIGERIAN AGRICULTURE
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THE ROLE OF EXTENSION IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT by Ifeoma Irohibe Department of Agricultural Extension‚ University of Nigeria‚ Nsukka Agriculture is the science of cultivating crops and rearing animals for the benefit of man and also includes other processes such as processing‚ storage and marketing of agricultural produce. The agricultural sector is essential in the economic development and poverty alleviation drive of many sectors. The importance of this sector is more pronounced in developing
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4/10/12 Human Development Essay: Nigeria Life expectancy is how long an infant‚ at birth‚ is expected to live for if they are healthy and born with no birth defects or diseases. The life expectancy is determined by finding the median age that both males and females live up to. Trends illustrate that women have a longer life expectancy than men. In Nigeria‚ the overall life expectancy is 52.05 years. Life expectancy for men and women are respectively 48.95 years and 55.33 years. Short life expectancies
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DYNAMICS OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA‚ 1914-1999 Abstract: This article examines the intractable problem of constitutional engineering in Nigeria. It is asserted that the drafting of constitutions is a recurring decimal in Nigeria’s chequered political history. Right from the colonial period‚ Nigerians were barely involved in the art of constitution making while the British colonial overlords employed constitution making to consolidate their imperial strategies. Post colonial Nigerian
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AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT POLICIES & PROGRAMMES Bhutan was traditionally self-sufficient in food production. Most of Bhutan ’s citizens and a significant amount of its GDP were devoted to the agricultural sector in the late1980s. Bhutan is a small landlocked eastern Himalayan country which is bordered by India in the east‚ west and south and china in the north. Its geographical land area is 38‚394km which is almost entirely mountainous. According to the Population and Housing Census‚ 2005; the Bhutanese
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Agricultural development can be defined as; an improvement in all aspects or practices of agriculture that can lead to better yields or output. Green revolution also refers to the introduction of modern farming practices such as improve seeds‚ tractors‚ pesticides‚ weedicides among others into agriculture Institutional bottlenecks on the other hand refer to a set of long standing factors that militates against the development of agriculture overtime. It therefore clearly indicates that the development
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AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF PAKISTAN When Pakistan was formed in 1947 most of the work had to be started from scratch. Most of the land was agricultural land and it had a very few industries. Most of the land was occupied by landlords. There were few semi-handcraft industries. While heavy industry was almost extinct. When sub-continent divided‚ the country industry and trade were largely under the influence of Hindus‚ who at the time of division migrated towards Indian territory
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Agricultural Subsidies and Development In recent decades‚ rich countries and organizations have taken measures to preserve their agro industry. In many of the largest countries as a measure to stimulate the production‚ subsidy is made for the proceedings or part of the necessary crops. Nowadays we are faced in a big question: What is the impact of these subsidies on world market prices and the producers do not receive subsidies for their production? There are many opinions from different parts
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Development of Agricultural Tools and Machines The development of machines began in the 1890 ’s when the first steam tractor and combine were made in California (Meij 3). There was a need to make more efficient use of the labor; therefore‚ machines were developed ("Agripedia" 2). By 1914‚ the combine started to spread outside of California to the rest of the United States (Meij 4). Then in 1928 it spread to Great Britain and then to the Netherlands after World War II (Meij 4). The development of
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THE PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS OF MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA. Omotosho Fatimah Olamide Department of Economics‚ University of Lagos INTRODUCTION The development of indigenous manpower to serve as the propelling force for national growth and development is no doubt a key to Nigeria’s socioeconomic and political development. Manpower utilization could be defined as “the existence of skilled
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