Nigeria’s Agro-allied industry: 38 years of neglect and decline

An analysis of the National Bureau of Statistics’ (NBS) Gross Domestic Output figures has shown that Nigeria’s agro-allied industry has continuously been on the decline for most of the past thirty-eight years. The output from the industry has fallen from N5,100 billion in 1981 to N4,598 billion in 2018. These figures show that the capacity of the agro-allied industry to process agriculture produce has been reducing even though agricultural production is increasing.