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Article: The determinants of agricultural production and profitability in Akoko Land, Ondo-State, Nigeria.(Report)
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- Journal of Social Sciences
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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INTRODUCTION
In Nigeria, agriculture is made up of forestry, livestock, fishing, food and cash crops such as yams, cassava, maize, cocoa, groundnut and oil palm. The country is largely endowed with natural resources that are necessary for the development of agriculture-such resources include abundant land supply, human and forestry resources. The country has a total land area of about 98.3 million hectares out of which 71.2 million hectares (72.4%) are cultivable but only 34.2 million hectares (34.8%) are under use (1).
Agricultural production is still highly dominated by the small holder farming system. The farms are dominated by small scale farmers ...