In my last weblog post , we discussed the rationale behind the quest of developing countries, Nigeria inclusive, to attain sustainable economic development through economic development planning driven through industrial and agriculture policies and programmes. Specifically, industrial economic development policies in Nigeria were discussed in the last post. We shall be dwelling more on agriculture development policies put in place in the various economic development plans in the country. We shall consequently be concluding by advancing reasons why these plans had not achieved their objective of economic diversification and sustainable development in Nigeria. Nigeria’s perception of the place and role of agriculture in national development changed considerably over time. Different strategies adopted by the country shows dynamism and changing strategies that overlaps and cannot be appropriately isolated into specific time period. Often it was a combination of
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