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with providing enough food for the population if modern
methods of agriculture are not invoked. With the emergence
of urbanization and white collar jobs, the food production
and agriculture might become the job of minority.^ ^ Recent
growth in agricultural production in Nigeria has been tempo-
rary rather than sustained. Migration of the surplus semi-
literate people into cities in search of jobs which do not
exist because of lack of employment opportunities in their
home regions is a sign of inefficient planning on the part
of the government. Development of agriculture in the
countryside is below the modern standard. The poorly
equipped farmers are underemployed for they use crude equip-
ment, usually hoes and cutlasses which require no skill,
and it is little wonder they achieve low productivity. How
could this state of affairs be reversed? A possible way of
reversing this procedure is for Nigeria to buiId up a skilled
agricultural staff, and to make investment in human capital,
which might bring a s peedy and rapid transformation of the
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country.
For Nigeria to have a reduction in the farm population,
the federal government should make adequate policies that
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would bring a continued decrease of the agricultural popu-
lation . Such policies might include, providing financial
^benefits to young high school graduates who would like to
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Lawrence Witt and Carl Eicher, Agriculture in Economic
Development (New York, 1964), p. 95*
^Ibid., pp. 9^-97>
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Fagbamiye, Theophilus Ademola. Agricultural Development in Nigeria, thesis, December 1970; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc131326/m1/18/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .