RIVER BASINS AND FOOD CROP PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA. A CASE STUDY OF ANAMBRA RIVER BASIN AND RURAL DEVELOPEMNT AUTHORITY.

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RIVER BASINS AND FOOD CROP PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA.

A CASE STUDY OF ANAMBRA RIVER BASIN AND RURAL DEVELOPEMNT AUTHORITY.

ABSTRACT

For purpose of clarity, the essay is organised in five chapters. Chapter one introduces the essay and also deals with a general survey of food crop production in the world with a general survey of food crop production in the world at large and Nigeria in particular. Chapter two consist of the literature review.

The third chapter describe the study areas, the study areas was divided into distinctive operational zones. Chapter four concentrates on the assessment of the schemes of the Authority directed towards food crop production in the study area.

The final chapter is devoted entirely to conclusion and recommendations.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

While food is man’s most fundamental need, it is surprising that ‘’the threat of famine and the fact of hunger have haunted and nations through history’’ (Kissinger, 1974: 262). That is not war, or communism, or the cost of Living, nor exaction, it is hunger’’ (Wilson, 1953: 15). However, the world food crop production is on the increase. Awake (1985:4) has noted that ii is a matter of fact that if one adds up the total amount of food crop produced, then there is enough to supply and adequate quantity and quality of food for all the world’s five billions persons. The same source further observed that since 1974, developing nations as whole increased total food crop production by 3.4 percent annually and the food production in Latin America and Asia increased more than 32 percent during the last decade and moreover, food crop production increased even in more in the developed world. The situation was summarized by food Report and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) in her 1984 world food report, when it noted that ‘’the total world food output increased at a very slightly faster rate than world population.

The production record for all the main groups of agricultural commodities was very mixed, for example, the output of root crop and tuber crops decline over this period. This last observation is very significant as it is aptly pointed out the global segregation or national aggregation conceals a number of very serious difficulties. Therefore, what is important is the specific situation in individual countries and it is this that may likely command attention and thus given reason for alarm.

However, irrespective of the somewhat favourable comment by the FAO, the African Continent is facing a food crises. Many of her countries are unable to feed her population. In many of these countries, drought had hindered efforts geared towards food crop production, and moreover, the global economic recession has further weakened them, making them unable to increase food import sufficiently to off-set the fall in their domestics output. The situation was well described by FAO in her (1984:5) world food Report where it noted that among the events in 1983, the most disturbing was the intensification of the Africa “food crises. That is in other words, the Nigerian agricultural sector is facing one major problem among others, this is the problem of raising the level of agricultural productivity. The issue of inadequate production has reached an alarming proportion that it is now common place other highly placed Nigerians expressing doubts about the ability of the agricultural sector to provide adequate quantity of food for a long and sustained period. The issue of an acute shortage of rice in the recent past bears testimony to the magnitude of the problem of low food product ion. This in part has resulted into a steady rise in food import bill for the country

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