Malthus
(1999), identified some of the problems facing cooperative societies in Nigeria
to include; shortage
of skilled personnel, inadequate
financing, excessive
government control and lack
of trust among members.
Njoku
(1999) enumerated constraint
faced by youth associations to include drudgery
nature of agriculture due to the dependence on hand tools, investment in
developing countries usually discriminate against agriculture, backwardness of
the rural area where farming activities predominate,
Lack
of social amenities such as electricity, good roads, pipe-borne water,
transportation, schools, markets, hospitals and communication facilities.
In addition, there is an increasing
shortage of labour, which currently constitutes a serious threat to
agricultural production. For instance,
there has been a continuous rise in the migration of youths, especially males
to the urban centres in search of better jobs, thereby leaving the women and
old men to carry out farming activities.
Returns from farming are significantly low compared to returns from
non-farming activities in the urban centres hence the trend in migration.
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