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CJOE: VOL. 6 NO. 1, DECEMBER 2022

CHRISTIAN AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE: A CATALYST FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN TIVLAND, CENTRAL NIGERIA, 1980s – 2020

Submitted
February 6, 2023
Published
2023-02-06

Abstract

Agricultural economists, agribusiness scholars, historians, political scientists, economists, geographers, and scholars of various disciplinary orientations have comprehensively interrogated issues of agricultural production in Tivland in Central Nigeria. However, these intellectual inquiries have not x-rayed directly on the contributions of Christian Agricultural Cooperative (CAC) to agricultural production in Tivland. This paper thus serves as an intervention by focusing on the role of CAC as a catalyst to agricultural production in the study area between 1980 and 2020. With the aid of extant literature and oral sources in line with the interdisciplinary method, the paper discusses the phenomena under consideration. In doing this, the study traces the historical foundations of CAC in the study area. Besides, the paper examines the roles and challenges of CAC in agricultural production in Tivland within the study period. It is the opinion of this paper that weak leadership/poor management and paucity of funds were the major forces that weaken the CAC and agricultural production in the focal area. The study concludes that leadership and membership of this cooperative should be able to study and understand the doctrines or tenets of cooperative and also register with National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) to be able to receive assistance if the threat of failure arises.