Problem And Prospect Of Agriculture In The Economic Development Of Edo State

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1         BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Agriculture sectors is one of the earliest sector, it starts when man has to survive as gathering of fruits and nuts. He has depended on the natural burning of the forest and water body. It is only recently as perhaps ten thousand year ago that man began to adopt and attempt to domesticate animals and plants. He began the transition from primitive hunting and gathering and the practices of animal’s husbandry and tilling of the land. At first, he did this unconsciously but as time passed he consciously selected the better forms of ani…