Essay On Agriculture And Poverty Reduction

Agriculture’s importance to poverty reduction goes far beyond its direct impact on farmers’ incomes, however, the economic steady and fast grow has not shown significant reduction of poverty. The challenges caused by limited access to “opportunities” led to rural households operating in the small land for subsistence with very slim profit that limits saving ability. This paper aimed at assessing agriculture’s wider role during economic growth and its impact on poverty reduction. The study found that increase in population (household size in rural area) and poor public services in rural exacerbating poverty and accelerate shifting from agriculture to non-agriculture activities especially educated youth, thus, structural transformation. However, there is considerable room for improvements in allocating available resources efficiently to ensure farmers benefit from the growth. Enormous efforts have been myths to the smooth changes which call for serious attention to the planners to review strategies, policies and programme.

Agriculture’s

The major and basic question that will be answered is whether Agricultural sector is responding to the development challenges of economic growth and poverty reduction during growth and transformation process. The in-depth study looked at the potential to improve agriculture’s impact on growth and poverty reduction in a cost-effective way relative to investments in nonagriculture sectors and investigate policy priorities towards poverty reduction and growth strategies and their ability to develop rural area. In fact, none of the country has ever successfully reduced poverty through agriculture alone, nor none of any country has achieved it without first increasing agricultural productivity (DFID,