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AGRICULTURAL
AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
A
CASE STUDY OF ADAPALM IN IMO STATE
ABSTRACT
The research work
examined the role of Adapalm in the stimulation of rural development in Imo
State. Three research questions were formulated and answered using tables and
simple percentages. The data required for the study were gathered from both
primary and secondary sources.
The finding s of the
study revealed that the operational activities of the company have benefited
the host community in the following ways:
i. Provision of employment opportunities for
the indigenes of Ohaju/Egbema.
ii. Raising the incomes of the people
iii. Improving the standard of living of the
people of the area and
iv. Provision of basic social amenities for the
rural community.
However, the negative
effect of the operations of the company was the problem of pollution which it
has created.
Based on the findings
of the study, we recommended that government should appoint men of proven
integrity as member of the company’s board of directors, it should assist the
company in raising funds and act as guarantor to the company in the case of
obtaining loans from banks, and it should impose lump-sum taxation as an
effective means of controlling the menace of pollution. It is our opinion that
if these steps are taken, the impact of Adapalm on the stimulation of rural
development in Imo State will significantly improve.
TABLE
OF CONTENT
Title page i
Certification ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgment iv
Abstract v
Table of contents vi
CHAPTER
ONE
1.0 Introduction 1
1.1 Background
of the study 1
1.2 Statement
of the problem 3
1.3 Objective
of the study 4
A1.4 Research
hypothesis 4
1.5 Significant
of the study 5
1.6 Scope
and limitation of the study 6
1.7 Organization
of the study 6
CHAPTER
TWO
REVIEW
OF LITERATURE
2.0 Introduction 7
2.1 History
of Adapalm 7
2.2 Product
of the Company 12
2.3 The
development of oil palm plantation industry in Nigeria 16
2.4 Agriculture
and economic development 19
2.5 Agriculture
and employment 21
2.6 Agriculture
and gross domestic product 23
2.7 Effort
at revamping agriculture in Nigeria 25
CHAPTER
THREE
RESEARCH
METHODOLOGYP
3.0 Introduction 31
3.1 Population
of the study 31
3.2 Data
collection/Source of data 32
3.3 Method
of data analysis 32
CHAPTER
FOUR
DATA
PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Analysis
and discussion 33
CHAPTER
FIVE
SUMMARY,
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.0 Introduction 44
5.1 Summary 44
5.2 Conclusion 45
5.3 Recommendation 47
Reference 50
CHAPTER
ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
When Nigeria attained
political independence in 1960, agriculture was the dominant sector of the
economy. It constituted over 65% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product GDP,
and provided the bulk of foreign exchange earning through the export “cash
crops: the sector catered adequately for nearly all the raw materials for
industry in the country. Major exports crops included cocoa, groundnuts,
cotton, palm oil, and rubber.
Conventionally
ascribed to the agricultural sector in a growing economy are there of:
i. Provided adequate food for an increasing
population.
ii. Supplying raw material to growing
industrial sector.
iii. Constituting the major source of employment
export.
iv. Providing a market for the products of the
industrial sector.
Agriculture is thus
seen as the backbone of these economies. Nigeria is predominantly in
agricultural economy an as long as she remains so; the future of this sector in
performing its role becomes important.
The early 1950’s and
1960’s agriculture play a crucial role in economic development as a nation. It
provided employment to millions of Nigeria and over 75% of the labour force
mostly from this sector accounted for about 70% of the Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) this was a period when we were not only initially self-sufficient in the
production of food crops to feed ourselves but also provided raw materials for
industries and major cash crops for export.
Indeed, agriculture
provided the main stimulus to our national economic growth despite the small
form holding and primitive productive production systems. These contributions
of agriculture to the nation over shadowed all other economic sectors in the
early 1960’s however, the reverse was the case in the seventies when its share
of the GDP declined to 34 percents by 1974. This was due to partly the
phenomenal growth during the period and partly to the persistent neglect of the
agricultural sector itself in terms of the relative shore of resources denoted
to the sector. Similarly, the growth rate of the agricultural production
exhibited a down work trend during the period.
The inadequate
domestic food production was reflected in Nigeria, massive food imports,
especially in the 1970’s and 1980’s to argument domestic supply the decline in
the production of some of Nigeria’s leading agricultural export commodities was
most worrisome for instance leading produces and exporter of palm oil in the
1980’s had become a net importer of this commodity in the mid-1970’s.
The performance of
agriculture during the review period was undermined mainly by its neglect
coupled with a chain of discontinued created by the boom among the latter mere
currency over-millions, which cheapened food imports and two offered unfair
competition to domestic production. Low demand for traditional food crops in
the face of cheap import (such as rice, maize, wheat and grain based products
and sugar) discouraged farmers from expanding domestic output. In the corn
export the growing over-valuation of the naira complied with the implicit
taxation of farmers by the commodity boards, put production for export at a
comparative disadvantage.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Crop and plants are
at the mercy of disease and pests because the rural farmers are un-educated,
they are ignorance of preventive insecticide against these diseases and pests,
empirical evidence has revealed that for genuine development to take place in
any economy, concrete efforts should be made to develop the rural and urban
sector simultaneously. The view is held in some quarters that development
efforts in Nigeria, have been urban biased. However, some measures have been
taken by the Nigeria government to develop the rural areas. Despite all the
efforts rural development in Nigeria is still logging behind. Therefore my study
has been induced by this need.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1. To examine their importance and planning
strategies
2. To examine the benefit of Adapalm to the
people of Ohaji/Egbema government area.
The discussion shows
the establishment of Adapalm resonate the rural urban movement of the youths in
the area. To guide our study the following research question are put forward.
1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
1. Are the people of Ohaji/Egbema local
government area benefiting from company at all?
2. To what extent has the establishment of
Adapalm project helped to check the rural-urban migration of the youths in the
area?
3. What are the external costs and external
benefits emanating from the activities of the company?
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Agriculture
as we all know was a hub in the GDP of this country before the oil boom. This
study will help us to understand again the numerous profits we derive from
agriculture especially palm produce.
To
the individuals, we are going to understand that agriculture can give us enough
employment instead of going to urban centre to look for white collar jobs.
Government would see again the reasons to resuscitate this dying agent of
agricultures which earned us a very high foreign exchanges before independent.
To say that without agriculture there is no way we can talk about food security
is not overstatement; this means that agriculture can supply us all we need in
terms of food production.
1.6 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The
study will cover the activities of the Adapalm project from its inception to
data and from the point of view of its economic impact on Ohaji/Egbema Local
Government Area in Imo State.
1.7 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY
This
study is organized in five chapters.
Chapter
One will consist of background of the study, statement of problem, objective of
the study, research hypothesis, significant of the study, scope and limitation
of the study, organization of the study as well as definition of term.
Chapter
Two will focus on review of related literature
Chapter
Three deals on research methodology
Chapter
Four will be on presentation and analysis of data
Chapter
Five takes care of summary, conclusion and
recommendation.
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