The Impact Of The Distribution And Utilization Of Oil Palm On The Socio Economic Development

The Impact Of The Distribution And Utilization Of Oil Palm On The Socio Economic Development

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the study

Nigeria ranked sixth among the poorest countries in the world with over 70 of the population living below poverty line in 2007( Central Intelligence Agency, 2012) while 46 lived below$1.25 daily in 2010( World Bank, 2014). Okonjo- Iweala( 2014) noted that Nigeria is one of the five countries in which two- thirds of the world’s extreme poor are concentrated; the others are India, China, Bangladesh, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The poverty in Nigeria is largely pastoral(poverties.org, 2013) where the goods of macro-economic shocks in terms of financial adaptation and financial policy reforms are felt much more. therefore, whereas poverty is anticipated to decline by 40 in the civic centers, it would increase by 7 in pastoral areas which inhabit nearly 80 of the population living below the poverty line and depend on husbandry for food and income( International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, 2009). harmonious profitable growth and substance are central to poverty relief and the oil painting win assiduity has been linked as one effective avenue for pastoral income generation, especially among the women who reuse and vend win oil painting in original and public requests, food security and profitable stability( Partnership enterprise in the Niger Delta, PIND, 2011).

A huge chance of growers in Nigeria are small scale growers. Small– scale husbandry involves growing crops, at least in part, to be used by an individual family, with tilling being a significant source of their livelihoods( Lininger, nd.) Small Scale husbandry is generally characterized by ferocious labour and in utmost cases, beast traction, limited use of agrochemicals and force to the original or girding requests. Unlike large– scale marketable husbandry, it plays a binary part of being a source of ménage food security as well as income from trade of fat. Although some claim small– scale husbandry is less effective in affair as compared to marketable husbandry( Kirsten & Van Zyl, 1998), it’s ecologically friendly in that lower land is cleared for civilization, there are less emigration due to lower use of energy– driven ministry and the request is generally original inferring lower carbon long hauls( Kutya, 2012).

The oil painting win( Elaeisguineensis) is the dominant source of vegetable oil painting consumed in the world( USDA, 2006), in the form of palm oil ( mesocarp oil painting) and kernel oil painting( seed oil painting). Palm oil painting is the main comestible vegetable oil painting produced and consumed in Nigeria where the oil painting win tree features regularly in the natural foliage of the tableland sticky tosub-humid areas in a belt that covers nearly 24 million hectares( ha)( Opeke, 2003). Dispersed small holders gather fruits from the wild/semi-wild triumphs and reuse them to produce 80 of the win oil painting affair and through which Nigeria reckoned for 43 of global win oil painting product up till themid-1960s. The performance has declined similar that the periodic affair at 850,000 metric tonnes( MT) leaves an overall force gap of0.5 million MT presently met through significances( Omoti, 2001).

Palm oil painting product starts with the oil painting win trees whose civilization has formed the husbandry culture and a means of livelihood for millions of families in the pastoral geography. Palm oil painting product is a major vocation which has played significant places in poverty relief in some countries, especially in Malaysia and Indonesia( Business day, 2013). The huge capabilities for generating pastoral income and furnishing employment have enabled the poor to be part of the result to the scourge of widepoverty.AkwaIbom State which has been listed among civil service state in Nigeria is also one of the 24 win oil painting– producing countries. This implies that the capabilities in win oil painting product to transfigure the lives of the small– scale growers in the pastoral sector of Akwa Ibom State need to be exercised. This study was carried out to estimate the impact of the distribution and application of oil painting win assiduity to the socio- profitable development of the pastoral occupants of Oruk Anam LGA.

Statement Of The Problem

Price of win oil painting is largely affected by product or affair of the win oil painting within the time and general affectation( Fly, 2003). once programs have aimed at adding agrarian productivity through increased investment in agronomic and product system exploration. The discovery of petroleum in the late 50’s and its exploitation and import in the early 70’s changed the profitable script in favour of oil painting as the principal profit earner for the nation. The global profitable recession of themid-80’s still exposed the essential structural weakness of import negotiation as a strategy for industrialization. With the coming of the Structural Adjustment Programme( SAP) in 1986 and the attendant devaluation of the naira, Nigeria manufacturers set up it’s delicate to import the demanded raw accoutrements and ministry to produced profitable policy expression has failed to take cognizance of the fact that product and marking constitute a continuum and that the absence of the development in one retards progress in the other( Olayemi, 1972). It in view of this that the experimenter intends to probe the impact of the distribution and application of oil painting win on the socio- profitable development in Oruk Anam LGA.

Ideal Of The Study

The main ideal of the study is to probe the impact of distribution and application of oil painting win on the socio- profitable development of Oruk Anam LGA of Akwa Ibom State. But to prop the completion of the study, specific objective includes

i) To probe the impact of oil painting win distribution on the socio- profitable development of Oruk Anam

ii) To ascertain the part of oil painting win distribution on the socio- profitable development of Nigeria.

iii) To estimate the benefit of oil painting win product on the profitable development of Nigeria

iv) To ascertain the part of government in abetting effective product and distribution of oil painting win in Oruk Anam LGA

exploration suppositions

To prop the completion of the study, the following exploration suppositions were formulated by the experimenter

H0oil win distribution doesn’t play any significant part on the socio- profitable development of Nigeria.

H1oil win distribution does play a significant part on the socio- profitable development of Nigeria.

H02 government doesn’t play any part in abetting effective product and distribution of oil painting win in Oruk Anam LGA.

H2 government does play a significant part in abetting effective product and distribution of oil painting win in Oruk Anam LGA

Significance Of The Study

It’s believed that at the completion of the study, the findings will be of great significance to the pastoral growers as the study seek to help them explore the benefit of oil painting win product and distribution to the growers, government, consumers and the general public. The study will also be of great significance to the government as the study seek to explore tha untapped capabilities of oil painting win product in Oruk Anam LGA and its donation to profitable growth. The study will also be of great significance to experimenter who wants to embark on exploration on analogous content as the findings will serve as a reference point to them. Eventually the study will be of great significance to the academia and the general public as the study will add to the pool of knowledge.

compass AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The compass of the study covers the impact of the distribution and application of oil painting win on the socio- profitable development of Oruk Anam LGA of Akwa Ibom state. In the cause of the study, there were some factors which limited the compass of the study

a) Vacuity Of Research Material The exploration material available to the experimenter is inadequate, thereby limiting the study

b) Time The time frame allocated to the study doesn’t enhance wider content as the experimenter has to combine other academic conditioning and examinations with the study.

c) Organizational sequestration Limited Access to the named auditing establishment makes it delicate to get all the necessary and required information concerning the conditioning