A study of the transportation factors militating against agricultural production in a developing country: A case study of Nigeria

Abstract

Transport is regarded as a crucial factor in improving agricultural productivity. It enhance quality of life of the people, creates market for agricultural produce, facilitates interaction among geographical and economic regions and opens up new areas to economic focus. This paper will examine the transportation factors militating against the development agriculture in developing world generally and to Nigeria in particular. A total of 100 questionnaires were administered to farmers which were randomly selected and interviewed representing 5% of the registered farmers in the study area. The analysis of the data collected from the questionnaire were based on simple statistic supported by series of tables and figures showing percentage distribution of some variables while Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient (r2) was used to test the relationship between the factors militating against agricultural production generally and the ones mentioned by the respondents while the ranking of the variables were done by given these values 10.5 and 0 to seriously agreed, agreed and not agreed which were sum up and the one with highest and lowest sum total ranked first and last. The study revealed that there are many factors militating against agricultural production in developing world in genera and Nigeria in particular but transport factor play a leading role.