Monday 26 October 2015

PAST EFFORTS AT REVAMPING AGRICULTURE IN NIGERIA.

In Nigeria like other West Africa countries, a lot of policy measures and programmes have been adopted since independence aimed mainly elevating
agriculture from its pitiable position of subsistence level to market-oriented level. Some of these policy measures and programmes include:

The National Accelerated Food Production Project (NAFPP) NAFPP was established in 1973 aimed at accelerating the production of major stable crops. The programme which has three components of research, extension and agro-services used improved practices in place of traditional ones. It also provided facilities like credit, marketing, storage and processing facilities to farmers.
The River Basin Development Authorities (RBDA): The Federal Government in 1976 established eleven River Basin Development authorities under Decree No. 25. The RBDAS were aimed at development of land and water resources for general development of agriculture in Nigeria.
Operation Feed the Nation (OFN); OFN was launched in 1976 by the Obasanjo Military Administration. It was aimed at mobilizing Nigerians to take active part in growing their own food which will lead to increase in food production in the country thereby leading to self sufficiency in food production, OFN tried to encourage Nigerians irrespective of their occupation is to take part in farming no matter the size of the farm.
Land Use Decree: The land use decree was promulgated in 1978 and incorporated into 1979 constitution. The decree was aimed at reforming the Land Tenure System which had constituted a bottleneck to large scale farming in Nigeria. The decree gave a boost to agriculture by making land readily for large scale agricultural activities in the decree, all land were vested in the hands of State Government that held them in trust for the federal government.
The commodity Boards in 1977, the federal government established seven commodity boards under decree No. 29. The seven marketing boards replaced the dissolved regional boards. The seven boards took care of cocoa, rubber, cotton, groundnut, grains (for cereals) root crops (for cassava, yam and cocoa yam) and palm produce (palm oil and palm kernel). The seven boards were established mainly to encourage the increase in production and marketing of the various commodities, conduct research into production and encourage the processing of the commodities assigned to the various boards.
Green Revolution: The civilian second republic or Shagari‟s administration in an effort to curb shortage of food in the country and increase food production launched green in 1980. The programme mainly aimed at
boosting increase in 1980. The government mainly aimed at boosting increase in agricultural production in order to meet the food need of the country and reduce the drain in the country‟s foreign reserves through food importation.
Credit Availability: The recognition of the role of credit facility to agricultural development prompted government to establish the Nigerian. Agriculture Development Bank with its head quarters in Kaduna. The bank gives loans directly to individual farmers, organizations and established institutions. Other credits are made available for agricultural development by commercial bank credit guidance directives and Federal Government Agriculture Credit Guarantee Scheme.
Government expenditure: In a bid to avoid fund hampering increase in production of agriculture, the various governments in Nigeria have spent fortunes in the area of agricultural sector. Considerable priority was given to agriculture in all development plans launched in Nigeria. For instance, about N1, 646 million was planned expenditure on agriculture in the Third Development Plan (1975-1980). 

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