Abstract
There is no doubt that agricultural growth in Nigeria has been on the decline. This is largely so because agricultural policies have a bias towards inappropriate technology, and fail to recognise women as the centrepiece in agriculture. The position taken in this paper is that women are in fact the pivot in Nigerian agriculture, and whatever technology is developed, should be in line with their needs. Such technology should involve a simple but mechanical form of weeding, the use of improved organic fertilizer and efficient methods of livestock husbandry.
Highlights
Women are a vital line in life, and agriculture is a way oflife.Every economy, be it industrial or agricultural, recognises the absolute need to feeds its population
Apart from food being a necessity of life, agriculture occupies a prime position inproviding basic raw materials for some of our industries, whose capacities are regrettably underutilised mostly due to scarcity of raw materials (CBN, 1995: 92)
There has been a lot of policy fonnulation in Nigeria's agricultural sector, some of which involves or influences the mode of technology adopted for improved agricultural perfonnance
Summary
Women are a vital line in life, and agriculture is a way oflife. Every economy, be it industrial or agricultural, recognises the absolute need to feeds its population. Technological development in agriculture (if any) does not have women as the focal element in fanning but emphasis has rather been shifted to cash crops and perhaps plantation fanning It is against this background that this paper sets out to link women with appropriate technology for improved farming. There has been a lot of policy fonnulation in Nigeria's agricultural sector, some of which involves or influences the mode of technology adopted for improved agricultural perfonnance. These policies have failed to consider women as the centrepiece in Nigerian agriculture. This omission is to a significant extent responsible for continuous decline in agricultural production and invariably affects both the immediate family (as women produce mostly for family consumption) and the income of women
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