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Introduction:

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the analysis of Federal Government effort towards cassava production. In pursuance of this study, research objectives and research questions were formulated. Both primary and secondary data were collected and the data were them presented, analyzed, interpreted using texual,

graphic and tabular modes of data presentation. The population used in this study consist of 420 farmers in Nkanu East. Though 382 questionnaire were returned of the 420, the survey research method in federal government. However, cassava is the most widely cultivate crop in the Southern parts of the country, cassava production was reported to be increasing among villages where the cassava, Yam, rice, beans, or peas were the most important crops, it is also grown by almost every household, Nigeria is currently the largest producer of cassava in the world with an annual production of over 34 million tones of tuberous roots. Cassava has also increased in importance in the middle belt in recent years. In all over fourth fifths of the cultivatable land area is suitable for cassava growing. Furthermore, the federal government should be more sincere in the policy making which is standing tool for progress of the project.

Table of Content

Title page i

Approval Page ii

Dedication iii

Acknowledgment = = iv

Abstract = v

Table of content = = vi



CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.0 Introduction = = 1

1.1 Background of the study 1

1.2 Statement of the problem = = 3

1.3 Objectives of the study 4

1.4 Research questions 5

1.5 Research hypothesis 5

1.6 Significance of the study 6

1.7 Scope and Limitation of the study = 7

1.8 Definition of terms = 8

Reference



CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Review literature = 11

2.1 Trends in cassava production in Nigeria

2.2 Resource base on the cassava production

2.3 Spread and economic importance of cassava production

2.4 Constraints in cassava production =

Reference



CHAPTER THREE

3.0 Research Methodology 31

3.1 Research Design = 31

3.2 The area of the study 31

3.3 Research population = 32

3.4 Research Sample = 33

3.5 Sources of data = = 34

3.6 Method of data analysis 34

3.7Method of testing hypothesis = = 34

3.8 population and determination of sample size.= = 35



CHAPTER FOUR

4.0 Data presentation, analysis and interpretation= = 36

4.1 Data analysis = = 36

4.2 Test of Hypothesis = 48



CHAPTER FIVE

5.0 Summary of findings, recommendation and conclusion

5.1 Findings 52

5.2 Recommendation = 59

5.3 Conclusion = = 60

Reference

Questionnaire

Appendix

Introduction

Cassava is one of the most important crops in Nigeria. It is the most widely cultivated crop in the Southern part of the country in terms of area devoted to it and number of farmers growing it. Indeed, it is grown by almost every household, cassava has also increased in important in the middle belt in recent years, in all

places, cassava has become very popular as a good and cash crop and is fast replacing yam and other traditional staples of the area. In all over fourth fifth of the cultivable land area is suitable for cassava growing.

Cassava (Manihot Esculenta Crantz) was introduced into central African from South America in the Sixteeth century by the early Portuguese explorers (Jones 1959), it was probably the emancipated slaves who introduced the cassava crop into Southern Nigeria as they returned to the country from South America with the Islands of Sou-Tonne and Fernando Po A. E. that time there were Portuguese colonies of Nigeria shores (Ekandem) cassava, however, did not become important in the country until the end of the nineteenth century when processing techniques were introduced, as many more slaves returned home. Cassava is important not only as a food but even more so as a major source of income for rural households, Nigeria is currently the largest producer of cassava in the world with an annual production of over 34 million tones of tuberous roots. Cassava is largely consumed in many processed forms in Nigeria, its uses in the industry and liverstock feed, it well known but is gradually increasing, especially as important substitution becomes prominent in the industrial sector of the economy.

As a cash crop, cassava generates each income for the largest number of households of comparison with other staples. It is produced with relevant purchased inputs as frequently as and in some cases more of total production, probably larger than of most staples, is planted annually for sale.

As a food, cassava has some inherent characteristic which make it attractive, especially to the cassava processing industries in Nigeria. First, it is rich in carbohydrate especially starch and consequently has a multiplicity of end uses.

Secondly, it is available all year round, making it preferable to other more seasonable crops such as grains, pees and beans and other crops for food security. Compared to grains, cassava is more tolerant of low soil fertility and more resistance to drought, pest and disease furthermore, its roots are storable in they ground for months after the mature. These attributes combined with other socio-economic consideration are therefore what the federal government (IF AD) has recognized in the crop as lending itself to a commodity based approach to poverty alleviation (FAD/IC, 1995). The socio economic importance of cassava and the accidental introduction of cassava mealybug which ravaged most cassava fields in the major producing areas led to the federal governments direct intervention in a way of rendering effort to the subsector, in the implementation to the IF AD assisted cassava multiplication project (CMP) between 1987 and 1996. In the early 1980s Udemili South of Anambra State Nkanu East drusticaly the combined effects of pests disease (Mosaic virus, cassava bacteria bright) Cassava Production Fell (Mealybug and Green Spider Mite), thereby posing a threat to national food security. In response, IFAD initiated the CMP as a parallel financed part of the World Bank - assisted MSADP -L. The overall objective of the CMP was to multiple, promotes and distribute improve varieties to cassava processing industries so as to improve productivity and income.