Thanks for the post mate, interesting read. Having followed Chinese agricultural modernisation it seems like the key drivers were cooperatives of large enough size so that some degree of specialisation could occur (ie marketers, accountants etc within the farming cooperative) along with strong government incentives for mechanisation and performance based subsidies for high output farmers. Do you know where Nigeria is at with regards to cooperative registrations amongst farmers ? Do you have any data on how big and well coordianted the average cooperative is ? Have their ever been any performance based subsidies in Nigeria for high output ?
It seeems like the Buhari government had some focus on Agriculture. It would have been ideal if you had analysed those policies.
And I think that during Akinwumi Adesina's time as minister for Agriculture, he was doing good things, or so I heard. Maybe an analysis of what went down during that period and comparing it with Buhari's time would have grounded the discussion better?
Perhaps in the future there will be time for a more granular analysis of the periods you mentioned. This essay is a more general philosophical argument about how to think about agriculture and it's role in economic development.
I am a bit fuzzy now in remembering what exactly Akin Adesina did as agric minister. But the two signature policies of Buhari were the Anchor Borrowers Programme, and trade restrictions on food imports. Both were astounding failures because trade restrictions are generally bad. Also the agric credit scheme was corrupt, and not packaged with targeted infrastructure interventions and agriculture extension services that will raise yield/productivity.
Thanks for the post mate, interesting read. Having followed Chinese agricultural modernisation it seems like the key drivers were cooperatives of large enough size so that some degree of specialisation could occur (ie marketers, accountants etc within the farming cooperative) along with strong government incentives for mechanisation and performance based subsidies for high output farmers. Do you know where Nigeria is at with regards to cooperative registrations amongst farmers ? Do you have any data on how big and well coordianted the average cooperative is ? Have their ever been any performance based subsidies in Nigeria for high output ?
Blessed reading this
Hmmm.
It seeems like the Buhari government had some focus on Agriculture. It would have been ideal if you had analysed those policies.
And I think that during Akinwumi Adesina's time as minister for Agriculture, he was doing good things, or so I heard. Maybe an analysis of what went down during that period and comparing it with Buhari's time would have grounded the discussion better?
Perhaps in the future there will be time for a more granular analysis of the periods you mentioned. This essay is a more general philosophical argument about how to think about agriculture and it's role in economic development.
I am a bit fuzzy now in remembering what exactly Akin Adesina did as agric minister. But the two signature policies of Buhari were the Anchor Borrowers Programme, and trade restrictions on food imports. Both were astounding failures because trade restrictions are generally bad. Also the agric credit scheme was corrupt, and not packaged with targeted infrastructure interventions and agriculture extension services that will raise yield/productivity.