Agricultural Economics Research Review

UGC CARE (Group 1)
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 33
  • Issue: 2

Optimizing agricultural value chain in Nigeria through infrastructural development

1Department of Economics and Development Studies, Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, Nigeria

2Department of Economics, Bayero University Kano, Kano State, Nigeria

Abstract

The paper investigates the impact of infrastructural development on agricultural value chain in Nigeria and finds that infrastructural development has a significant positive impact on the agricultural value chain in the long as well as short run. The macroeconomic instability, on the other hand, exerts the opposite impact. A comprehensive policy framework is required to enhance agricultural value chain output and promote investment in human and physical capital while carefully managing macroeconomic instability and distortions. Governments at all levels should prioritize infrastructural development to optimize the benefits from the agricultural value chain.

Keywords

Agricultural value chain, Ordinary least squares (OLS), Dynamic OLS, Fully modified OLS, Infrastructural development, Nigeria