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1) Agricultural output of crops like cassava, yam, oil palm and plantain showed little to no growth over the 12-year period despite over 21 billion naira being allocated to agriculture.
2) The highest percentage of the state budget allocated to agriculture was 9.56% in 2005, with over 1 billion naira allocated in most years except 2002, 2003, 2006-2008 and 2010.
3) There was a very poor relationship between budgetary allocations and agricultural output, as the allocations did
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indicators studied were inflation, money supply, interest rate and savings. Budgetary
allocation represents the fiscal component while inflation, savings, interest rate,
money supply represented monetary policy indicators. One of the fundamental
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Analysis of the effects of monetary and fiscal policy indicators on agricultu...researchagriculture
The research was conducted to determine the effect of monetary and fiscal policy indicators on Nigeria’s agricultural output. The output considered were mainly cereals such as maize, sorghum, rice, millet and wheat while the monetary policy indicators studied were inflation, money supply, interest rate and savings. Budgetary allocation represents the fiscal component while inflation, savings, interest rate, money supply represented monetary policy indicators. One of the fundamental objectives was to examine the relationship between monetary and fiscal policy indicators on agricultural output. Multiple regression was used as the main analytical tool, and the result showed that money supply, budgetary allocation, interest rate were 94%, 54% and 82% significant in the order above i.e. they had significant relationship with output, while inflation and savings were not significant. The result also revealed that within the period of study, agriculture contributed 28% to 35% of the gross domestic product. Forestry and fisheries contributed the least, while crop and animal sub sectors contributed the highest.
Article Citation:
Okidim IA and Albert CO.
Analysis of the Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy Indicators on Agricultural
Output (Cereal) (1990-2000).
Journal of Research in Agriculture (2012) 1(1): 058-064.
Full Text:
http://www.jagri.info/documents/AG0021.pdf
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Assessment of budgetary allocation to agricultural sector and its effect on agricultural output in rivers state, nigeria
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Assessment of Budgetary Allocation to Agricultural Sector and its
effect on Agricultural Output in Rivers State, Nigeria (1999-2010)
Okidim, I. A. and Albert, C. O.
Rivers State University of Science and Technology Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. PMB 5080
Tel: 08039312859
Email: iboh.okidim@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
This research focused on the assessment of budgetary allocation to the agricultural sector and it effect on agricultural
output in Rivers state, between (1999-2010). The research only utilized secondary data generated by the Rivers
state government of Nigeria through the ministry of agriculture. The objectives of the research was to examine the
agricultural output of some selected crops such as cassava, yam, oil palm and plantain, and to examine the
relationship between the budgetary allocation to the agricultural sector and the various output mentioned above as
well as investigate the entire budgetary allocation to agricultural sector for a period of 12 years. Simple regression,
percentages, and tables, were used as analytical techniques. The coefficient of determination,[R2] showed a very poor
relationship between budgetary allocation to agricultural sector and output, meaning R2, was not significant for the
four different equations. This is because allocation to agricultural sector was miss-applied.
Keywords: Budget, Allocation, Agricultural Output
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Jhingan (2004). The term budget was derived from the French word “Bougette” which means a leather bag or a
wallet. The chancellor of exchequer in England used to carry the financial proposal for the year in a leather bag to
the house of commons. The term budget relates to the paper containing Walpole’s financial plans. The term was
used for the first time in 1733 by a member of house of commons of England.
Today, budget is seen as a document which contains an estimate of the expected government revenue and
expenditure for a period of time-say one year.
Uchenna (2004). Budget could be divided into two parts -The capital budget and the recurrent budget. The
recurrent budget is made up of expenditure on overhead and salaries and overall running of government, while
capital budget is made up of expenditure on capital projects such as Agriculture, health, roads, electricity, pipe borne
water etc. Bulk of the money used to finance the budget comes from fiscal operation (policy). This means the
budget is regulated through taxes and careful spending. Beardshaw (1988) that if government spends more money
than it collects in taxes, then the government runs a deficit. In which case, the budget will be financed through
borrowing this will result in ‘crowding out’. Crowding-out is a situation in which increase in government borrowing,
prevents individuals from borrowing due to increase in interest rate. Conversely, a situation in which government
collect more money than it spends is referred to as budget surplus. Both budget deficits and budget surplus have
expansionary or inflationary effect on the economy as well as contractionary or deflationary effect. Henderson and
Pool (2005) that the major objective of budget is to create full employment, control inflation, promotion of economic
growth. These are a achieved through the operations of the monetary policy. (Okuneye, 2002) that budgets are
formulated to achieve certain prime objectives such as reducing inflationary pressures, sustainable growth and
development, reduce poverty and enhance rural development.
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT
It is no longer controversial that in central Africa, about nine million people are faced with sever food crises due to
famine (FOA 2010) the situation is not just in Central Africa alone. The Rivers state government of Nigeria due to
the presence of hydrocarbons has left up to 50-60 percent of its fertile arable land uncultivated in-spite of the huge
budget. Ministry of Agriculture (2010) That the sum of twenty one [21] billion naira has been budgeted since the
last 12 years by successive government in Rivers state for the agricultural sector, yet people are still not sufficient in
food production. In 1999, 7.3% was budgeted for agriculture, in 2005, 9.56% was allocated to agriculture, in 2008,
8.9% was allocated to agriculture, yet there is shortage in output. Allison- (2006) that the industrialist have
conspired against the agricultural sector by attracting factors of production away from agriculture, factors of
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production such as land and labour migrate out of rural agricultural sector to the urban industrial sector for better
wage.
But nevertheless, so many governments have boastfully maintained that they have transformed the agricultural
sector, yet there is still food insecurity. It is against this premise that this research is being conducted to ascertain
the very reasons why there is so much food insecurity in-spite of the huge budgetary allocation.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The general objective of this study is to assess the budgetary allocation to the agricultural sector and its effects on
agricultural output in Rivers State. While the specific objectives are to;
(1) examine the agricultural output of some selected food crops from 1999-2010
(2) investigate the total budgetary allocation to agricultural sector between 1999-2010
(3) examine whether or not, there is a relationship between agricultural output and budgetary allocation in Rivers
State
1.4 METHODOLOGY
Study Area
Rivers State is one of the 36 States of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The state was created in May 27, 1967 by
Yakubu Gowon. The state has boundaries with Abia, Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa-Ibom as well as Imo States. Rivers
State has 23 local government council, with about 5 million people (2006 census). With Port Harcourt, as its
capital. The state is rich in crude oil, although the major occupation of the people is fishing and farming. The
study utilized secondary data and focused mainly on the Rivers state government and ministry of agriculture an
ministry of finance between 1999 to 2010. Analytical technique used in the research work includes simple regression
as well as descriptive statistics such as tables and simple percentages.
The following simple models were built to represent the real world
Y1 = F (x) + U -----equ. 1
Y2 = F (x) + u ----- equ. 2
Y3 = F (x) + u ----- equ.3
Y4 = F (x) + u ----- equ. 4
(Domodar 2009)
Where
X = budgetary Allocation (independent variable)
Y1 = Output of plantain
Y2 = Output of yam Dependent
Y3 = Output of oil palm Variable
Y4 = Output of cassava
These outputs were purposively selected since the state seems to have a comparative advantage over other states in
term of their production.
Results and discussion
Table1shows output of selected crops (1999-2010) this is in line with the analysis of objective one (1) which is
examining the total agricultural output in Rivers State, between (1999-2000). The table shows that output was poor
compared to the budgetary allocation, during the period under review. For instance, in 1999 about 6 billion was the
state budget. Only 50 million was allocated to agricultural Sector i.e only 7.3% was actually released.
The analysis of the selected food items revealed that there was no remarkable increases in the whole of the
output. From 1999-2010 output revolved around 11 and 16 tons for cassava, in 1999 cassava was 11.36 tons,
twelve years later (2010) it was still 11.22 tons. This shows a decrease of 0.14 tons. The conclusion is that
cassava did not show any appreciable growth in output. In oil palm, there was increase between 1999 to 2000.
Oil palm output increased from 25 tons in 1999 to 60 tons in 2000, and dwindled between 94 tons in 2001 to 95 tons
in 2010 this shows that within the period of 12 years output of palm oil was very poor. The same goes to plantain
and yam with a stagnated growth of 9 to 11 tons respectively.
The entire output of yam, cassava plantain and oil palm were abysmally poor between 1999-2010.
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Table 2 shows the budgetary allocation to agricultural sector. In line with objective 2 of this study which is to
investigate the total allocation to the agricultural sector from 1999 to 2010. The table shows that about NGN 2.9
trillion have been budgeted by the state within the period of 12yrs, out-off this amount about NGN 21 billion was
allocated to the agricultural sector within the period of 12 years. A breakdown of this shows that in 2005
agriculture received about 9.56% representing about NGN900 million which is the highest so far within the 12
years period in terms of percentage, followed by 8.9% in 2008. In 2010, about 2 billion naira was allocated to the
agricultural sector while the entire budget for the state stood at 154.534 billion. Apart from 2009, when the
allocation to the agricultural sector was 472 million, in 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010 the agricultural
sector received more than a billion naira each of the above years respectively.
Table 3 shows relationship between budgetary allocation to agricultural sector and agricultural output-This is in line
with objective three (3) of this research work. In 1999 the budgetary allocation was NGN 50,751,000 this was
about 7.3% of the entire budget. Output of cassava was 11.36 tons, oil palm 25 tons, plantain 9.25 tons and
budgetary allocation to agricultural sector was 133 million almost triple the previous year (1999) yet the output did
not increase proportionally, only output of palm increased. Yam, plantain, cassava recorded stagnated growth in
output.
50 million was allocated to the agricultural sector. This represents 7.3% of the total budget while the total output of
cassava, oil palm, plantain, yam, was 53.82 tons. In 2000, the budgetary allocation to agric sector was
NGN133.551 million which was almost 200% increase compared to the 1999 allocation while the output was
93.73%. This shows almost a hundred (100) percent increase in output. This increase is not proportional to the
agricultural budgetary increase which was about 200%. In 2002, the allocation was about NGN 1.378 billion. A
breakdown of the output shows that oil palm decreased in output, from 94 tons to 84 (10 tons decrease) plantain,
cassava and yam showed some abysmal output. This very poor output was not a true reflection in the whooping
1.378 billion allocated to the sector, between 2006 to 2008, there were no visible increases in agricultural output, yet
agricultural allocation continued to increase, in 2010 the allocation to the agricultural sector increased astronomically
to 2.7 billion but the agricultural sector experienced the worst growth in output.This analysis shows that there was a
negative relationship between budgetary allocation to agricultural sector and agricultural output. Within the period
of 12 years (1999-2010) the sum of 2.9 trillion naira had been allocated to Rivers State, by the Federal Government,
but only 21.507 billion naira was allocated to the agricultural sector, further investigation into why there was poor
performance of the sector, revealed that huge part of the budget was normally used to service staff and personnel of
the Ministry of agriculture (14.6%) 9-8% was used for international donations. While the greatest part (108%) for
consultancy. Only 4.7% was given to farmers as loan.
Summary of Regression Result
Y1 = B0 + B1 x1 + U equ…5
Y2 = B0 + B1 x1 + U equ…6
Y3 = B0 + B1 x1 + U. equ…7
Y4 = B0 + B1 x1 + U. equ…8
Y1 = 10.66 + 3.13 x1 equ… 9
(0.489)
* R2 = 0.36
Y2 = 9.482 + 5.22 x1 equ…10
(0.293)
* R2 = 0.36
Y3 = 70.96 + 1.21 x1 equ…11
(8.956)
R2 = 0.024
Y4 = 13.14 – 3.9 X equ…12
[0.88]
R2 = 0.033
Standard errors in parentheses
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The regression results showed that there was a positive relationship between Y and X. Budgetary allocation (X)
and various output (Y) as revealed by the appriori signs, except the estimate of equation 8 (Y4 = 13.14 – 3.9X) that
showed a negative relationship. This means cassava and the budgetary allocation to the state showed negative
relationship.
Even though there were positive relationships in equations 9, 10, 11, these relationships were not significant. This
was confirmed by the coefficients of determination (R2) of the four equations. It shows that very little of the
variation in the various output Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, were explained by (X) which is the budgetary allocation. This mean
that a reasonable fraction in [Y] which is output of plantain, cassava, oil palm, and yam) was not explained by X
(budgetary). the objective three of this study seeks to examine the relationship between budgetary allocation and
selected output, but the coefficient of determination (R2) revealed that there was a no significant relation this was
because budgetary allocation was not actually applied in the production of agricultural output, rather the budget was
miss-applied throughout the twelve (12) years of study since there was no correlation between the budgetary
allocation and output.
CONCLUSION
Considering the objective three of this study, it can be concluded that the volume of the budgetary allocation to the
agricultural sector did not produce the expected output. This was revealed in table 3 which shows the relationship
between budgetary allocation to agricultural sector and output of agriculture. The findings showed that while
budgetary allocation continued to increase within the period of 12 years, output of various crops (yam, plantain,
cassava, palm oil) were abysmally poor.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on the evidence of this study, the following recommendations were proffered. That government should set up
a monitoring body to evaluate how the budgetary allocation to the agricultural sector is being applied periodically.
That even though the actual figure allocated to agricultural was not actually used for its purpose, there is a need to
still increase the allocation.
That government should use this budgetary allocation to make agriculture an attractive industry so as encourage
attract employment
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