PICKFORD
Verified member
It is said that agriculture is as old as mankind and agriculture involved the rearing and planting of farm and field cultivations but why have many neglected agriculture why is there no present news about agriculture well this is due to the stage of development and growth of the country in which we are talking about. in a country like Nigeria the main reason why agriculture is being neglected is that the government the people and lack of farm and farming inputs are not presents for the people as well as enthusiasm and motivation to continue agricultural activities.
A lot of people neglect agriculture in Nigeria without knowing that the climate change allows it to produce a variety of crops mostly staple foods like rice, cassava, beans, millets, cowpea, plantain, potatoes, yam groundnut etc a lot of people say that decline in agriculture in Nigeria begin in the year let back in 1970 when petroleum was discovered in Nigeria, the discovery of oil in Nigeria distort the agricultural sector making everyone including the government and its agencies to shift away their mindset from agriculture and focus on petroleum. Presently in nowadays some factors affect agriculture some of these factors include:
1. Illiteracy:
There is no doubt that literacy rate in Nigeria is low and this has affected agriculture because new educated farm personnels have not been produced for the past two years leading to the decline in agricultural activities thoughts and ideas the present agricultural.The present agricultural personnel that we have in Nigeria today lack the requisite authority and formal language to communicate with the outside world.
2. Lack of funds:
Insufficient fund or lack of money at all have caused setback in agriculture because many farmers have not been able to buy farm and farm implements the activity of agriculture is being neglected and even the government does not provide help this will lock agricultural activities behind bars for a very long time.
A lot of people neglect agriculture in Nigeria without knowing that the climate change allows it to produce a variety of crops mostly staple foods like rice, cassava, beans, millets, cowpea, plantain, potatoes, yam groundnut etc a lot of people say that decline in agriculture in Nigeria begin in the year let back in 1970 when petroleum was discovered in Nigeria, the discovery of oil in Nigeria distort the agricultural sector making everyone including the government and its agencies to shift away their mindset from agriculture and focus on petroleum. Presently in nowadays some factors affect agriculture some of these factors include:
1. Illiteracy:
There is no doubt that literacy rate in Nigeria is low and this has affected agriculture because new educated farm personnels have not been produced for the past two years leading to the decline in agricultural activities thoughts and ideas the present agricultural.The present agricultural personnel that we have in Nigeria today lack the requisite authority and formal language to communicate with the outside world.
2. Lack of funds:
Insufficient fund or lack of money at all have caused setback in agriculture because many farmers have not been able to buy farm and farm implements the activity of agriculture is being neglected and even the government does not provide help this will lock agricultural activities behind bars for a very long time.