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Productivity of Arable Crop Farmers: Panacea to Youth Unemployment

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  • Ashagidigbi Waheed M
  • Agboola Uthman O

    (Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Akure, Nigeria)

  • Yusuf Taibat M

    (Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Malete, Nigeria)

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Nigerian agricultural sector is known to be dominated by aged and inactive famers who are less productive and less receptive to new ideas. This has led to reduced food productivity, which is a threat food security in the country...

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  • Ashagidigbi Waheed M & Agboola Uthman O & Yusuf Taibat M, 2019. "Productivity of Arable Crop Farmers: Panacea to Youth Unemployment," Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, Biomedical Research Network+, LLC, vol. 22(4), pages 16871-16877, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:abf:journl:v:22:y:2019:i:4:p:16871-16877
    DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2019.22.003792
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