尼日尔州与海南省水稻生产比较研究.docVIP

　　尼日尔州与海南省水稻生产比较研究 --CHAPTER ONEIntroduction 1.1Background The Nigerian Economy has gone through many years of vicissitude especially on her agriculturalsector. As at 2012, the total contribution of agricultural sector to GDP ated to about 33.1%:and 89.2% of this share is oiagsinated by the petroleum sector) generating about 95% of foreignexchange earnings and over 80% budgetary revenue. Nigeria is confronted y to lesser dependence on the oil sector. Chinas development inthe agricultural sector has been a huge is characterized to have a long history of development in technologies associatedent, fertilizer, s of rice production, both in quantities and value，China ranks first in the ost developing countries especially in Asia and noic importance of rice，it is also used for thatching, industrialstarch, and arty The importance of rice to the phasized, food security-ing regions in the ins and some minerals mostespecially in Nigeria (the largest rice consumer in Africa). Nigeria have a diversified agro-ecologicalproduction systems ajor including maize，millet,sorghum, rice, cassava, yam, cocoyam, song erged as the fastest groed by feeeay be defined as an economic process that uses resourc --es to createmodities/goods that is suitable for exchange. These economic processes could includemanufacturing, storing, shipping, packaging etc(Cobb and Douglas 1928; Metcalfe et al 2003). Someeconomists (Veneziani and Yoshihara, 2011;Mundlak 1961; Humphrey 1997) define productionbroadly as all economic or managerial activities other than consumption. They see every mercialactivity other than the final purchase as some form of production. An efficient production aximum output easures to limiting these easurement of the volume of output is the attempt to measure the changes in the amount ofinputs use to achieve the output and to determine the relationships that exist betportant tool of economicanalysis in the neoclassical tradition (Mishra 2007) to measure production variables. T; techn