An expert at the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), Prof. Olalekan Akinbo, has called for the adoption of agricultural innovation and technology to increase agricultural productivity, sustainability and growth in the agricultural sector in Nigeria.
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The Agricultural sector development is considered to hold the key to economic development for most Sub-Saharan countries including Nigeria (Olukunle, 2013). This is because it has the ability of changing the dynamics and contribute immensely to the growth and development of this African Economies as it provides food for sustenance, nutrition and raw materials to the non-agricultural industries of the economy, it provides employment opportunities to a vast majority of unemployed labor most especially in rural communities and avails a means by which valuable foreign exchange can be earned through the export of agricultural products.