DEPLOYMENT OF TECHNOLOGY: A WAY OF ENHANCING AGRIBUSINESS
DEPLOYMENT OF TECHNOLOGY: A WAY OF ENHANCING AGRIBUSINESS Prof. J N Nmadu Agricultural Economics and farm Management Federal University of Technology, Minna Industrial Liaison officer Fellow and President, Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economists You may be aware that all my life, I deal with numbers and how to make them understandable for those who do not make meaning out of it. I try to determine the pattern in numbers and present them in a way that it makes more meaning. Essentially, and in the simplest of putting it, you may say that I apply technology to numbers and indeed I do. Over the years, there is one concept that is well misunderstood by majority of Nigerians: diversification. Each time we have a new government, they always promise to diversify Nigerian economy. And when they say, most of us will nod our heads in agreement. In most of the cases, they normally want to diversify from oil and gas sector into agriculture. So, what does that mean, and how will i