Research on rural integrated development, employment, and food production in the Guinea Savannah zone of Nigeria

His emphasis has been on obtaining basic input-output data on all the enterprises undertaken by sampled households in the zone. This approach has the unique features of providing us with such valid and meaningful profiles of such variables of importance to rural development and food production as labor, capital, employment, other resources, and income. The memorandum has tried to assess the problems of rural development and food production with respect to responsible factors, structure of the given rural economy and the need changes. It has examined the knowledge situation with respect to previous rural economic surveys, ILO surveys, industrial surveys, rural enterprise surveys and the gaps in our knowledge. It has also posed some of the special key policy issues, stated the objectives and outlined the basic components of the research very broadly. The methodology of research, the research areas and the personnel as well as the minimum funding for the first three years was presented. It cannot be over-emphasized that this is the approach which can satisfactorily provide the type of detailed information that we urgently require for rural integrated development planning and for programming increased food production to meet the needs of Nigeria"s growing population.