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CHALLENGES OF AGRICULTURE IN NIGERIA ECONOMY: A BANE TO FOOD SECURITY
Abstract: The Nigeria National Flag have two combined colour of Green and White (Green-White-Green). The Green colour symbolizes that Nigeria is a potential agricultural economy. Not only that, the Nigeria Coat of Arm have a symbol –The Black Shield. This symbol equally represents rich agricultural soil. With The combination of these two symbols , one may quickly concluded if he is not a Nigeria and probabaly not living in Nigeria that agriculture is the main stream of the Nigeria economy. However, this assumption is fallacy because Nigeria after over fifty three years (1960-2014) of attaining Political independence is not among the list of the agriculturally recognized countries of the world. Against this backdrop, this paper through secondary source of information enumerated the various challenges faced by agriculture in achieving food security and a source of foreign exchange earnings for Nigeria. The paper chiefly recommends amongst that government should encourage boosting of agriculture through subidizing of organic fertilizers and at the same time embark on granting agricultural crdit facilities to farmers, link rural areas with good road network and fix agricultural marking institutions and encouraging agricultural investment framework.
Keywords:Challenges, Agriculture, Economy, Food & Security