Agriculture! A Veritable Tool for Reducing the Rate of Unemployment in Nigeria

摘要

This paper emphasizes the Agricultural sector of the economy as a veritable tool for reducing the rate of unemployment in Nigeria. Unemployment is one of the major critical problems facing the nation despite the endowed, diverse and infinite resources of both human and material that are abound in the country. However, years of negligence and adverse policies have led to the under - utilization of these resources. One of these is the agricultural resources that spanned from North to South and West to the East which had once been the mainstay of the of the country's economic resources, but now left in the hand of the aged ones still depending on the primitive methods of farming. This paper focus on agricultural sector of the economy as the sector that can provide mass employment to the teaming unemployed Nigerian without having an adverse effect on the other sectors of the economy.