Problems of agriculture in Nigeria

The main problems of agriculture in Nigeria Today, the agricultural sector is one of the most important in the country, it employs around 70% of Nigerian Labour force. But the sector suffers because of low output, and because of that, it is getting harder to feed the increasing population. Let’s outline its main problems: Poor infrastructure The current state of infrastructure in many sectors resulted in the high level of the migration among able-bodied youths. Youths don’t want to stay in rural areas because there is poor infrastructure and move to cities. Because of that, the agriculture in villages loses its workforce which reduces its outputs.

Another example is bad roads, the situation with roads increases the cost and time of the transportation. Some goods perish during the transportation.

Education and modernization The lack of mechanized equipment and illiteracy of most farmers is the reason why it is hard to implement modern farming methods. Many farmers still stick to archaic farm practices.

Unserviceable machinery From time to time government import some number of tractors but there are no service stations to repair or replace a parts for such machinery. If there is some problem with such a tractor, a farmer usually just park it and come back to the old way of farming.

Food processing issues 20-40% of the harvest is lost annually during the processing. Among the main problems we see the lack of proper storage facilities, because of that, the harvest is attacked by pests and the storage conditions themselves reduce the quality of the crops.

Government policies There is a low level of hybrid seedlings importation, and it is still not easy to get fertilizer subsidy. Today we see some government programs aimed to develop the agriculture sector, but in past years there were no qualitative programs to boost the sector. May God bless our land.

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