Agriculture

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First of all agriculture is the cultivation of crops rearing of animal and selling of agricultural products

It's absorbed a large number of people, and many other economic activities revolve around it.

Agriculture made it possible to create, accumulate, and appropriate wealth in the form of foodstuffs and cash.

Agriculture encouraged a rapid increase in population since there would be food to feed a large number of people.

It's also encouraging a degree of urbanisation, which makes it possible for people to engage in and finance non-agricultural activities.

Farm work consisted of clearing land, making mounds, sowing, weeding, and harvesting.

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The system of cultivation varied considerably, but the following are common: shifting, cultivation, irrigation, permanent cultivation, rotational bush fallow, and mixed cropping.

The choice of any of these systems depends much on the availability of land; the land tenure system and the physical features of the land, however, stood out as the most widespread.

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The system was most effective in an economy where land was not too scarce, since it called for a temporary abandonment of overused land for as long as he could drain each fertility. Shifting cultivation had a number of advantages: it made it possible to reduce the spread and danger of insects and weeds and allowed the farmland to regain its fertility without the application of fertilizers.

Pre-colonial agriculture was quite efficient.

It is difficult to quantify the production level of agriculture, but it is obvious that production far exceeds domestic consumption. This is because the key crops and animals were exchanged for other goods and services.

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Though simple implements are used, the various communities cultivate the land within their respective dominions, and in some parts of the forest zones, large areas of land are reduced to grassland.

Post-colonial agriculture suffered from one main problem—the unwillingness of youth to stay in the rural area to farm.

Many young people, especially able-bodied males, do not fight agriculture, a very attractive occupation. they prefer moving to urban areas to hunt for white collar jobs that are scarce. Agricultural activities are left to the elderly.

This problem has affected agricultural practices because few people are left to plant valuable crops.

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