Nigeria has recorded an increase in crops production and in land areas agricultural cultivation in 2017 above the 2016 production records.
A report on the 2017 Wet Season Agricultural Performance Survey (APS) report presented by the Federal Government in Abuja on Tuesday, said the overall Farm yields still remained below global and African averages for all the sub-sectors.
The study was done by the National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS) in collaboration with the Federal and states Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
According to the report, maize production increased from 10,813, 980 tonnes in 2016 to 12, 107,580 tonnes representing 11.96 per cent increase.
Rice production increased to 8.02 million tonnes was produced in 2017, representing an increase of 14.7 per cent over the 2016 output, sorghum increased by 4.4 per cent with an average yield of 1.3 tonnes per hectare. Others are cowpea with a 6.1 per cent increase, 11.4 per cent increase for soybean and 7.7 per cent increase for cassava.
The report listed major constraints to agricultural production during the year under review to include farmers-herdsmen clashes, insurgency, and cattle rustling among others.
It, however, recommended the strengthening of the capacity of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, to put in place strategies for collective action on high quality agricultural data generation.

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A welcome development but The generation of angry youth created by PDP's failure will hate this

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ManirBK:
A welcome development but The generation of angry youth created by PDP's failure will hate this

Let's see if it continues to increase, in case u forget, it's due to Buhari's harsh government that pushed most people to de farm, now He's using Herdsmen to scatter them...failed Nation