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Impact Of Agriculture In Nigeria

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1.3 Problem Statement
Agriculture is the primary employment of majority of rural poor in developing countries of Africa (IFRI, 2011). It also serves as their main source of income and livelihood. Agriculture has been identified as a panacea to the economic quagmire that Nigeria and other countries of the world have found themselves. Basically, the role of agriculture is developmental in nature: it is concerned with strengthening the ability of farmers and farming communities to produce and market agricultural goods in order to sustainably generate both food and income (Agulanna et al., 2013).
Although agriculture has made remarkable progress in the past decades, not much progress has been made in improving the nutrition and health of poor …show more content…

(ii) There is no significant relationship between farming households’ socio economic profile and their health status.
(iii)There is no significant relationship between farming households’ socio economic characteristics and its effect on nutrition and health status of respondents in the study area.

1.6 Justification of the Study
In the past decade, many empirical studies have examined nutrition and health with respect to agriculture although, most part the emphasis has been on nutrition rather than health. There have been a longstanding deliberations in development economics as regards the role of change in nutrition and health in the process of economic development since it is well recognized that low levels of health and nutrition as measured for example by caloric intake ,body size ,illness and mortality etc . Developing countries need good nutrition, health and productive agriculture to fight poverty because, lowered production by agricultural workers to poor nutrition and health which affects their income and further deepens the incidence of poverty and ill health (IFPRI , …show more content…

It can enhance the antipoverty, nutrition and health impacts of agricultural principal operators and their households’ hence ensuring greater support for agriculture as an important public good. Improved nutrition and health for instance have been shown to have direct effect on welfare, especially among poorer individuals (Behrman, 1993). Many studies have been carried out on the relationships between agriculture, nutrition and health of farmers (Adeyeye , 1989; Fahima, 1995; Hawkes and Ruel, 2006; Kennedy and Bouis, 1993). Asenso-Okyere et al. (2009), (2011a) explained the bidirectional linkages between agriculture and health, interactions between health and farm labour

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