Estimating the Growth Impact of Nigeria's Second National Development Plan (1970-1974) on Agriculture

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Title:	Estimating the Growth Impact of Nigeria's Second National Development Plan (1970-1974) on Agriculture
Author:	Nwoko, Somayina G.
Year:	1979
Periodical:	Eastern Africa Journal of Rural Development
Volume:	12
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	185-195
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	national plans agricultural production 1970-1979 Development and Technology Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Abstract:	The dual objectives of the present article are: (1) to examine critically the productive capacity impact in terms of capital investment in the agricultural sector during the second national development plan; (2) to determine the impact of these changes in productive capicity of agriculture on that sector's contribution to national growth as measured by the share of agriculture in the growth of the economy between 1970 and 1975. The author concludes that for future development plans to have siginificant impacts on the growth of the agricultural sector farm problems should be tackled strictly on the basis of ecological zones. Within each zone, programmes and projects should be directed at the small-scale traditional farmers who produce the bulk of the nation's food and fibre. Plan monitoring should be directed at checking the physical materials and service hours that actually reach the farmers rather than the capital expenditure alone. Ref., tab.