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CJOE: VOL. 5 NO. 2, DECEMBER 2021

Quarry Economics and Community Development in Mbajôv, Southern Tivland, 1960-2017

Submitted
February 1, 2022
Published
2022-02-01

Abstract

This study focuses on quarry, an aspect of economic activities in Mbajôv Community that has not received attention from scholars. It investigates the historical foundations and discusses the extraction processes of quarry in Mbajôv community of the Southern Tiv axis of Central Nigeria. The study uses interdisciplinary methodology or cross-cutting research method (in line with the use of written and oral sources of data collection for corroborative analysis and objectivity); employing both descriptive, narrative, prescriptive, pictorial, analytical and empirical tools in the course of investigation and analysis of the subject. It examines the challenges of quarry in Mbajôv with specific attention on manual labor, lack of access roads to quarry sites, poor prices, and occupational hazards, among others. The study has discovered that the quarry industry contributed marginally to the development of the focal area. The argument is that, if the challenges that constrained quarry during the period under consideration are done away with, this would go a long way in enhancing effective extraction, marketing, and transformation of the industry, as well as the whole community and even beyond. To achieve these, the paper recommends inter alia, that the Benue State Government should construct roads leading to quarry sites and also empower quarry operators with modern tools of extraction.