Agriculture in Nigeria

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Development of agricultural output of Nigeria in 2015 US$ since 1961
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Oshodi Market in Lagos

Agriculture is a sector of the Nigerian economy, [1] accounting for up to 35% of total employment in 2020. [2] According to the FAO, [3] agriculture remains the foundation of the Nigerian economy, [1] providing livelihoods for most Nigerians and generating millions of jobs. [4] [5] [6] Along with crude oil, Nigeria relies on the agricultural products it exports to generate most of its national revenue. [6] The agricultural sector in Nigeria comprises four sub-sectors: crop production, livestock, forestry, and fishing.

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Nigeria has a total agricultural area of 70.8 million hectares, [7] of which 34 million hectares are arable land, [8] 6.5 million hectares are used for permanent crops, and 30.3 million hectares are meadows and pastures.

Maize, cassava, guinea corn, and yam are the major crops farmed in Nigeria, with 70% of the households engaged in crop farming. In the south, 7.3% of the households practice fishing, while 69.3% of the households own or raise livestock in northwest Nigeria. [9]

In the third quarter of 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the sector grew by 14.88% year-on-year. Crop production remains the largest part of the sector. During the third quarter of 2019, the agriculture sector contributed 29.25% to the overall real GDP. [10] Between January and March 2021, agriculture contributed 22.35% of the total gross domestic product. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]

The sector is undergoing transformation through commercialization at the small, medium, and large enterprise levels. [16] However, there are several factors in the Nigerian agricultural sector that may prevent its growth, including a land tenure system that limits access to land, the country's level of irrigation development, limited adoption of research findings and technologies, costs of farm inputs, the amount of access to credit allowed by the management of specialized institutions established for the development of the agricultural sector, the manners of fertilizer procurement and distribution, storage facility effectiveness, and the amount of access to markets.

More recently, changes in average temperatures, rainfall, climate extremes, and the growing infestation of pests and related diseases precipitated by climate change pose a challenge to the integrity of the country's agriculture system. [17] This is coupled with a dependence on rain-fed agriculture, which has made the sector vulnerable to seasonal conditions. [18]

These all contribute to agricultural productivity and post-harvest losses and waste in Nigeria. [3] Illiteracy is also one of the several factors preventing the progress and development of agriculture in Nigeria. Research has proven that most of the farmers in Nigeria have not acquired formal education. [19]

Dynamics

At the time of Nigeria's independence (1960), food exports made up more than 70% of the country's Gross National Product (GNP). [20] However, over the next 25 years, the situation reversed, with food items accounting for over 50% of imports. Despite having fertile land, food output in Nigeria declined, and per capita food production also decreased, leading to a more than sevenfold increase in grain imports. [21]

In the 1970s, the Nigerian government promoted the use of inorganic fertilizers to address the issue. [22] By 1990, out of Nigeria's total land area of about 91 million hectares, 82 million hectares were found to be suitable for farming, but only 42% of the cultivable area was farmed. The "bush fallow system," which involves land being left idle for a period of time to allow natural regeneration of soil fertility, was commonly used. Additionally, 18 million hectares were classified as permanent pasture, but had the potential to support crops, and most of the 20 million hectares covered by forests and woodlands were believed to have agricultural potential. [23]

Agricultural holdings are small and scattered, and farming is carried out with simple tools. Large-scale agriculture is not common. Agriculture contributed 32% to GDP in 2001.

Animal agriculture

This section is an excerpt from Animal agriculture in Nigeria.[ edit ]
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A farmer and his cow

Livestock production is a part of Nigeria's agriculture system. In 2017, the country had about 80 million poultry birds, 76 million goats, 43.4 million sheep, 18.4 million cattle, 7.5 million pigs, and 1.4 million equids. [24] Livestock agriculture is about 5% of Nigeria's GDP, and 17% of its agriculture GDP. [25]

Meat demand has increased as economic development grows in Nigeria. [26] Animal grazing practices in Nigeria have changed due to population growth, urbanization, and changing agricultural practices. [27] [28] Traditional nomadic herding has transitioned to sedentary and intensive grazing, leading to increased pressure on forested areas. Overgrazing, particularly in fragile ecosystems such as savannas and woodland areas, has caused a loss of vegetation, soil, and biodiversity.

Production

In 2022, Nigeria produced:

In addition to smaller productions of other agricultural products, [35] Nigeria produced about 2.2 million metric tons of fish in 2008. [3]

Agricultural products

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A map of Nigeria's main agricultural products

Crops grown in Nigeria include beans, rice, sesame, cashew nuts, cassava, cocoa beans, groundnuts, gum arabic, kolanut, cocoa, maize (corn), melon, millet, palm kernels, palm oil, plantains, rice, rubber, sorghum, soybeans, bananas, and yams. [36]

In the past, Nigeria was known for the export of groundnut and palm kernel oil. However, over the years, the rate of exportation of these products has decreased. A few years ago[ clarification needed ], local Nigerian companies started exporting groundnuts, cashew nuts, sesame seeds, moringa seeds, ginger, cocoa, and other crops. [37]

The country's agricultural products fall into two main groups: food crops produced for home consumption and cash crops sold for profits and exported abroad. Prior to the Nigerian civil war, the country was self-sufficient in food, but that decreased after 1973. Bread made from American wheat replaced domestic crops as the cheapest staple food. [38] Between 1980 and 2016, yam production increased from about 5 million tonnes to 44 million tonnes. [39]

Tonnes produced in198020002016
Maize 612,000 [40] 4,107,000 [40] 764,678 [41]
Millet 2,824,000 [42] 5,814,000 [42] 1,468,668 [41]
Guinea corn 3,690,000 [43] 7,711,000 [43] 6,939,335 [41]
Yam 5,250,000 [39] 26,210,000 [39] 44,109,615 [41]
Cassava 11,500,000 [44] 32,697,000 [44] 57,134,478 [41]
Rice, paddy 1,090,000 [45] 3,298,0006,070,813 [41]
Melon seed 94,000 [46] 345,000 [46] 569,398 [41]
Cocoyam 208,000 [47] 3,886,000 [47] 3,175,842 [41]
Sesame seed15,000 [48] 72,000460,988 [47]

Cocoa

Cocoa is the largest non-oil foreign exchange, but the dominance of smallholders and lack of farm labour due to urbanization hold back production. Some other factors holding back the production of cocoa include financing, a lack of a coordinating body, and low uptake of newer varieties of seedlings to rehabilitate old and cultivate new plantations. These factors are identified by multiple stakeholders.[ citation needed ]

The challenges have displaced the country from being the second-largest producer of cocoa beans to being the fourth, overtaken by Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Indonesia. In 1969, Nigeria produced 145,000 tons of cocoa beans; however, it has the potential to produce over 300,000 per year. The Nigerian Government may give more incentives to cocoa farmers to increase productivity. [38]

Rubber

Rubber is the second-largest non-oil foreign exchange earner. [5] [49] Rubber is grown across different states in Nigeria, including the Edo, Delta, Ondo, Ogun, Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers, Ebonyi, and Bayelsa states. [50]

Palm oil

The palm oil industry constitutes another sector of the Nigerian economy, providing food and raw materials for the food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and bio-energy industries. In Nigeria, the institute with information about oil palm is the Nigeria Institute for Oil Palm Research. The formal mandate of the institute is to conduct research into the production and products of oil palm and other palms of economic relevance and transfer its research findings to farmers. [51]

Cash crop production

Cash crop production in Nigeria in 1980, 2000, and 2016

Tonnes produced in [41] 198020002016
Oil palm fruit 5,750,0008,220,0007,817,207
Cocoa 153,000338,000236,521
Groundnut 471,0002,901,0003,028,571
Kola nut 135,00082,000143,829
Ginger 20098,000522,964

Traditional native crops

Traditional native cereals such as fonio ( Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua ) are still grown in the Middle Belt of central Nigeria. [52]

Other traditional native crops in Nigeria are: [52]

Ministry of Agriculture

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A rice paddy field in Nigeria

The government office responsible for agriculture development and transformation in Nigeria is currently the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Primarily funded by Nigeria's federal government, the Ministry currently supervises almost fifty parastatals operating as either departments or agencies across the country. The Ministry has two major departments, namely the Technical and Service Departments:

The ministry is headed by Audu Ogbeh, who was appointed by President Muhammad Buhari on 12 November 2015, succeeding Akinwumi Adesina, who was elected to head Africa Development Bank. Buhari also appointed Heineken Lokpobiri as the new Minister of State for Agriculture and Shehu Ahmad as the Permanent Secretary under the newly created Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. [53]

Policies

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Rice processing in south east Nigeria
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winnowing of threshed rice separates the stock from the paddy rice, by a Nigerian woman
Women working in the mill. The husk and bran of the parboiled rice are removed to give the white grain in south east Nigeria. Rice processing in South East Nigeria18.jpg
Women working in the mill. The husk and bran of the parboiled rice are removed to give the white grain in south east Nigeria.

In 2011, President Jonathan's administration launched the Agricultural Transformation Agenda, which was overseen by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The primary goal of the agenda was to position agriculture as a profitable business, integrate the agricultural value chain, and establish agriculture as a primary driver of Nigeria's economic growth. [54] To achieve this agenda, the government implemented several measures:

Recently, the Central Bank of Nigeria began the Anchors-Borrow program [55] to encourage the cultivation of certain crops, especially rice.

The Federal Government of Nigeria has also closed its land borders in order to curtail rice imports and encourage local production. [56] [57]

Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals in the agriculture sector in Nigeria have had an impact on the export sector responsible for the consumption and production of agricultural products in Nigeria. The exportation sector's monthly earnings have improved in four years. In January 2016, agricultural exports raked in N4.1 billion, which then rose to N25 billion by January 2017. From April 2019 to March 2020, total agriculture exports hit N289 billion for Nigeria.

Agriculture exports for the first six months of 2020 were N204.45 billion, which indicates that productivity is increasing in the sector to enable export growth. [58]

The Sustainable Development Goals have also led to the emergence of policies that have had an impact on the agriculture sector. Some of them include the Nigerian “Agricultural Promotion Policy—2016–2020”, which focuses on ensuring food security by reducing food imports. It manages institutional reforms and incentives for technological development at the local level. The Empowering Novel Agribusiness-Led Employment Program mobilizes finance for youth-led agribusiness development. Another policy is the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Act from 2016, which offers incentives to farmers and other professionals throughout the agricultural supply chain. Finally, the “Green Alternative: The Agriculture Promotion Policy” was launched in mid-2016. It was created to boost soybean and cowpea production, which were chosen for the policy's focus due to their nutritional value and export potential. [59]

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