ABSTRACT This study focuses on finding out the extent to which development banking has aided in development of the Nigeria Economy through financing and granting of medium and long term loans for capital projects and other related services like providing technical services to their bank customers who engage in promotional activities to stimulate interest on new projects. The study adopted a his historical method of investigation because of the absence of the questionnaire and the nature of th...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out on desertification and rural development in Akokoro sub-county where by Akokoro sub-county was used as the case study. The study objectives included to establish the extent of desertification in Akokoro sub-county, to find out the extent of development in Akokoro sub-county, to establish if there is significant relationship between the level of desertification and the level of rural development. These guided the study and determined the data that the researc...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDECLARATIONAPPROVAL.iiDEDICATION iiiACKNOWLEDGEMENT ivABSTRACT vTABLE OF CONTENTS viACRONYMS! ABBREVIATIONS ixLIST OF TABLES xiCHAPTER ONE 1PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Background of the study 11.3 Statement ofthe Problem 31.4 Purpose of the Study 41.5 General Objective 41.5.1 Specific Objectives On The Study 41.6 Research Questions 41.7 Null Hypothesis 51.8 Scope of the Study 51.8.1 Geographical scope 51.8.1 Content scope 51.8.3 Time scope 51.9 Significance o...
TABLE OF CONTENTSAPPROVALDEDICATIONDECLARATION iiiACKNOWLEDGEMENT ivTABLE OF CONTENTS vLIST OF TABLES ixLIST OF FIGURES xLIST OF ACRONYMSABSTRACT xiiCHAPTER ONE 11.0 Introduction 11.1 Background of the study 11.1.1 Historical perspective 11.1.2 Theoretical perspective 21.1.3 Conceptual Perspective 31.1.4 Contextual perspective 31.2 Problem of the Statement 41.3 Study Purpose 41.4 Research objectives 41.5 Research Questions 41.6 Scope of the study 51.6.1 Geographical scope 51.6.2 Content scope...
TABLE OF CONTENTSDECLARATIONAPPROVAL iiDEDICATION iiiACKNOWLEDGEMENT ivLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRYNOMS vLIST OF TABLES ixLIST OF FIGURES xCHAPTER ONE 11.0 Introduction 11 1 Background of the study area 11.2 Statement of the Problem 21.3 General Objective 31.3.1 Specific objectives of the study area 31.4 Research questions 41.5 Significance of the study 41.6 hypothesis 51.7 Scope of the study 51.7.1 Geographical scope 51.7.2 Time scope 51.7.3 Content scope 51.8 Limitations of the Study 6CHA...
ABSTRACT Nigeria is faced with many environmental problems. Available data indicate that Nigeria is losing her renewable natural resources (including arable land, forest, pasture/rangeland and water resources) beyond sustainable limits. Economic and environmental systems interact in many important ways and hence the need to understand these interactions and develop effective public policy. While economic systems derive many invaluable inputs (some commodified, others free) from environmental...
Abstract This study examines the role of YA FM in enhancing rural development in Mberengwa North district. The research sought to identify and review the major contributions that were brought by YA FM in the development of rural communities. The main focus of this research was to identify programmes related to rural development and how these are stimulating development in rural areas. Despite some challenges and personal agendas, YA FM has managed to design programmes that have positivel...
Abstract The local Government Service Act 203 of L.I 1961, was passed in 2011 and as part of its implementation, extension services at the local level was ceded to the local government service and Departments of Agriculture became units under the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies. Given the importance of extension in agricultural development at the local level, this research aimed to assess the functionality and effectiveness of Departments of Agriculture under the Local Governm...
Abstract This study examined the role of financial institutions in agricultural development. A case study of Nigeria Agricultural Cooperative and Rural Development Bank, with a view to make useful suggestions and recommendations as way of enhancing the development of agricultural sector. The population for the study includes large and small scale farmers and the sampling method adopted for the study is the stratified random sampling in order to ensure adequate representation of the population...
The study assessed rural youth migration in Ovia north east local government area of Edo State. This study specifically described socio-economic characteristics of rural households obtained, information on migrant youth, examined the level of youth participation in agricultural and rural development activities and the effect of youth migration on these activities in the study area between 2012 2017. A two stage sampling procedure was used to select eighty (80) respondents who were household ...
1.0INTRODUCTION 1.1GENERAL BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY A bank is an establishment where money and other valuable are kept in safety. Bank is also described as one of the source from which co-operative organizations and other business enterprises raise capital in the form of loans. The development of co-operatives domestic and international trade is largely dependent on the existence of a strong monetary system in which people have faith and confidence. In modern times, the banking system provide...
ABSTRACTIn this abstract the effect of loan recovery on the performance of Nigeria agricultural cooperative and rural development bank (NARCRDB) is the topic and also the objective of the study includes how the scale farmers dwelled with Nigerian agricultural and rural development bank and also to know how the farmers finance their farming. More also, the objective of the study touches the loan given to the farmers is adequate or not. In conclusion, non recovery of agriculture loan are caused...
ABSTRACT The major function of the Nigerian Agricultural, co-operative, Rural and Development Bank is provision of loans and advances to individual and corporate farmers. However, there are series of reasons for the need for special funding towards agricultural sector. The agricultural sub-sector is saddled with peculiar risks, risks that can hardly be diversified; illiteracy and ignorance; culture; interest rate, etc Loan defaults occur when the borrowers can not meet up the repayment of pri...
INTRODUCTION Banking in Nigeria has gone through very dramatic changes within this decade the industry has grown beyond optimistic expectations. Over the period, the number of banks expanded, the variety of banks increased, banking operation were substantially deregulated, competition increased and banks were forced to be more innovative and service oriented.Nigerian Agricultural, co-operative and Rural development bank (NACRDB) COME IN AS A Financial Institution which provides medium and lo...
A producer and a buyer enter into a two-party contract when they practice contract farming. A buyer commits to purchasing output from a producer at a predetermined price, quality and timing (Bellemare & Bloem, 2018). In many nations around the globe, contract farming is used to link smallholders’ farmers to profitable markets for higher incomes and better living conditions (Barrett et al., 2012). Early in the nineteenth century, the North American agricultural sector saw the introduction of...