
Agriculture is the economic mainstay of the majority of households in Nigeria.However, agricultural productivity for food and its contributions to national income has been on the decline in the last 3 decades. Nigeria is currently one of the four leading food importing countries in the world. The high rate of poverty, food insecurity and youth unemployment in Nigeria presents an opportunity for agriculture led economic growth which can secure a prosperous future for some of the country’s poorest people. The opportunities that are inherent in the agricultural sector prompted the Government of Nigeria (GON) to initiate the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) in 2012.