Discuss five contributions made by agriculture to the industrial development of Nigeria.

Explanation

Contributions of agriculture to the industrial development of Nigeria are:

(i) Agriculture provides Nigerians with food and increase in food means increase in the well being of the citizens.

(ii) The industrial sector depends on agriculture for some of its raw materials, e.g. sugar cane, palm produce, cotton etc.

(iii) Agriculture provides revenue for farmers and government of Nigeria.

(iv) It provides employment to many Nigerians who would have been jobless.

(v) Agricultural produce, e.g. cotton, rubber etc earns foreign exchange for the country.

(vi) It provides a market for industrial output as farmers purchase industrial goods, e.g. hoes, cutlass, tractors, fertilizer etc for use.