About 40.2 million households in Nigeria practise a form of agriculture or another, amounting to more than 70 per cent of households in the country, the National Bureau of Statistics has revealed.
The bureau, in its latest report, placed Kano State as having the highest demography of agricultural households in Nigeria, with 2 million households, and Bayelsa State as the least, having 340,000 agrarian households.
The NBS recently released the National Agricultural Sample Census Report 2022 in collaboration with the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organisation, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security and other stakeholders.
The Statistician-General of the Federation, Adeyemi Adeniran, said the report covered a broad range of data points related to agricultural households, encompassing crop production, fisheries, forestry and livestock activities and showed that agriculture plays an important role in Nigeria.
The report indicated that 16 per cent of the agricultural households in Nigeria were headed by females, especially in Anambra and Enugu States, while males led the majority (84 per cent).
It stated that in 40 per cent of the households, one or more members received a formal education and one or more members in about 65 per cent of the households attended vocational training. The report stated that crop cultivation (91 per cent) was the most prevalent form of agricultural practices.
