Management Of Risk In Agricultural Financing (a Case Study Of Nigeria Agricultural And Commerce Bank Plc, Enugu Branch)

1.0INTRODUCTION 1.1BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Agriculture has been the main stay of Nigerian economy before the Nigeria independence until the era of oil boom.  Statistics show that in 1963/64 agriculture provided about 50% of the Gross National Product (GNP) and 88% of the country’s basic foreign exchange earner of crops like palm oil, palm kernels, cocoa, cotton, groundnut, cereal, woods as raw material for their industries. Although after independence a gradual drift in cities in search of white-collar jobs began and this handicapped the agricultural sector, which lead to a serious decline in …