Agriculture Pathway to Sustainable Development for Akwa Ibom
By Benson Etuk Akwa Ibom State is endowed with numerous natural resources, the most prominent among which is oil. The state is Nigeria’s largest oil producer, accounting for over 30 per cent of the country’s oil – a fact that is known to all. What may perhaps not be known by many is the fact that Akwa Ibom is basically an agricultural state whose people have always depended on farming for existence, though at subsistent level. In fact, before oil replaced agriculture as Nigeria’s economic mainstay, the state, then part of the Eastern Region, was a major contributor of palm produce whi...
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