Individual farmers and farmers’ organizations
will be adequately empowered to play leading role in collaborative project identification, design,
implementation, monitoring and evaluating such farmers’ organizations will include co-operative societies, farmers association,
fadama users association,
commodity-based associations and other self-help groups. This implies a shift
form the usual top-bottom approach to a democratic bottom-up approach that is
in variable demand-driven.
Agricultural Programs And Development
Policies In Nigeria
River
Basin development authorities was established under decades 25 of 15th
June, 1976. The river basin development authorities and the Niger Delta Basin
Development authorities Decree no 37 of 3rd August, 1976 has also
promulgate. These decrees created in eleven River Basis Development Authorities
throughout the country.
These are:
1.
Sokoto – River Basin authority sokoto
2.
Lake
Benue Basin Maiduguri
3.
Upper Benue Basin Yola
4.
Lower Benue Basin Markurdi
5.
Cross River Basin Calabar
6.
Anambra –Imo Basin, Owerri
7.
Niger Basin
Ilori
8.
Niger Delta Basin port Harcourt
9.
Benin – Oweria Basin, Benin city
10.
Oshun – Ogun Basin Abeokuta
11.
Hadejia – Jema Basin kano (Longe et al, 2010)
These
Basin were created by the federal Government of Nigeria to harass the country’s
water resources and optimize Nigeria’s agricultural resources for food self
sufficiency. The main objectives of the establishment of these basins is to
provide water supply, improvement of navigation, hydro-electric power
generation, recreation facilities and fisheries projects. The basins are also
to engender big plantation farming and encourage the establishment of
industrial complexes that could bring the private and public sectors in joint
business partnership. The river basins authorizes were also expected to bridge the
gap between the rural and urban centres by taking development to the grass
roots and discourage migration from the rural
areas to the urban centers. These objectives were to be achieved through
surface impoundment of water by constructing small, medium and large dams which
would enable an all-year round farming activities in the county.
While
appraising the RBDAs in 1981 professor J.B.E. Awachie of University of Nigeria
Nsukka and former chairman, National Advisory Committee on Fisheries Research
said that policy was to use the basin as
development modules to bridge the widening gap between rural and urban areas and stem the drift of rural
people to overcrowded cities.
However,
these objectives are yet to be followed 38 years after. Some of the achievement
of the authorities could easily be noticed in the area of land preparation and
infrastructural development.
A
number of factors militated against the successful running of the RBDAs. One of
these factors was the development from above syndrome where by developmental
plans were imposed on the people by governments.
Includes
policy discontinuity, inadequate funding due to government dwindling revenue
and lack of understanding and focus on its core mandate. Also the objectives of the programme were
rather all embarking and too large in scope to be efficiently implemented.
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