Plant Biology Soil Health Journal(PBSHJ)

Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Abuja, FCT, P.M.B. 117, Abuja, Nigeria

Publications

• Review Article   
  A Critical Review of Rural Agricultural Development Innovative Programmes in Nigeria
  Author(s): Samuel Olabode Adeyemi, Samson Olayemi Sennuga*, Funso O. Alabuja, Joseph Bamidele, Adebisi Olateju Omole, Bankole Osho-Lagunju and Mary E. Iheonu
  
  This review is to examine the different Agricultural development innovative programmes in Nigeria and the factors that led to their failure. In the last decade, poverty and malnutrition still remain the major challenges of most of the countries in the Sub-Sa- haran Africa despite the significant efforts that successive Government had made, example is the case in Nigeria. With reference to the estimates from experts in 2010, the unabated rising cost of food in the sub-saharan Africa had resulted to increase in the population of poor people who mostly resides in the rural areas to about 44 million. It has also been established that, adoption of innovation is the only way to go if the problems of poverty and malnutrition is to surmounted because, increase in Agricultural productivity will translate to an increase in the availability of food most especially in the rural areas where over 8.. Read More»
  

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