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The data of this study was obtained over the course of the 1987 crop year from a total of 60 smallholder farmers who were randomly selected from four villages in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria. The results of the survey suggest that current farm policy encouraging farmers to adopt sole-cropping practices appears to be misdirected. The intercropping of subsistence food crops is more profitable, efficient, and practical than the cultivation of food crops in segregated stands

This study is based on a survey of 60 rice farmers in Anambra State, Nigeria. It estimates and compares the rice output from traditional farms using only manual labor and that from farms using tractors. It also estimates labor input and the costs and returns of production in both systems of farming

Nigeria has great potential to increase the availability of fish by supporting and expanding its capture fisheries and agriculture. In 1984, less than 30% of the potential of the country's coastal fisheries with aquaculture (fish farming) in Ondo State, Nigeria, to determine how efficiently the systems were utilizing resources and how production could be economically increased

Ten years after the establishment of the Rural Banking Scheme in Nigeria, there are clear indications that the problems and issues that led to the scheme are still prevalent. These include a low level of rural savings mobilization, inadequate use of banking services, and the lack of credit for the rural people. This paper examines the central assumption of the Rural Banking Scheme that increasing the physical proximity of banks to rural people enhances rural savings mobilization and, in turn, increases th flow of funds to the rural sector

This study was conducted among smallhoder rice farmers in the Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria, over the 1987-88 crop year to determine ways in which rice production might be increased through more efficient use of farming ressources. A total of 45 rice farmers was randomly selected for the study, in such a way as to include an equal number of irrigated, swamp, and upland rice farmers. Survey results indicate that land scarcity, financial constraints, unfavorable rainfall patterns, and the inefficient distribution of irrigation water limited the production of rice during the survey period

To determine the extent to which nutritional concerns are being incorporated into agricultural research in Nigeria, this study examined the programs conducted by three agricultural research institutes between 1981 and 1985. One international Institute, the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture in Ibadan, and two national institutes, the Agricultural Research and Training Institute in Ibadan and the National Root Crops Research Institute in Umudike, were included in the study

Oil palm is one of Nigeria's most important food and cash crops. Most of Nigeria's palm oil is produced by smallholders who own small, wild groves. The trees receive no maintenance and their yields are low. To reverse the decline in oil-palm production, the Nigerian government instituted the Oil Palm Rehabilitation Project to enable smallholders to replant old groves with high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties of oil palm and to use improved inputs and production technologies. Six improved technologies are recommended by the Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research: improved seed varieties, fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, triangular spacing, and pruning

This paper investigates the nature of land-tenure arrangements on Malawian tobacco estates by analyzing the history of the tenant-farming system in Malawi and by surveying 330 tenant farmers and the estate managers of 17 privately owned, burley tobacco estates in Malawi's Kasungu Zone. Special attention is focused on (1) the reasons labor and management choose to enter into tenant-farming agreements, (2) the terms of contractual arrangements, and (3) tenant/management performance, to determine what improvements can be made in the tenant-farming system

The forestry sector in Tanzania has been underutilized in promoting national development. The government owns large timber plantations that have not been fully harvested due, in part, to a lack of processing capacity. In the early 1980s, the Tanzanian government introduced five mobile sawmills to utilize the surplus of small-dimension timber from its overstocked plantations. These mobile sawmills have proven themselves to be both financially and economically profitable in Tanzania's unstable economy. A financial and economic evaluation of the mobile sawmilling industry in Tanzania was undertaken to evaluate the factors that influence the profitability of the industry. Data was collected on the costs and revenues of the sawmills since their operation was initiated