Abstract
The development of the Sokoto-Rima river basin as a network of irrigation projects was first envisaged by the FAO in a report published in 1965. It is through this organ of the United Nations that the planning for agricultural development in this part of Nigeria became intimately linked with the desire of the industrial firms in Western Europe, North America and Japan to find export markets for industrial products in agriculture. By 1975, when the first contract for the irrigation project at Bakalori was signed and a company (IMPRESIT Bakalori, Nigeria) was formed, the FAO had already within it an agency (the Industry Cooperative Programme) whose purpose was to promote the penetration of agricultural planning in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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