Cash Crops as the Viable Option to the Rescue of Nigerian Economy

The need to bridge the nation’s revenue gap owing to dwindling oil price has forced the Nigerian government to start looking towards non-oil products especially agricultural cash crops for foreign exchange earnings. Since agriculture was the mainstay of the Nigerian economy before the oil boom, the need to look into this sub-sector to keep the nation’s economy afloat becomes a sine-qua-non. Therefore, agriculture needs to be given serious attention as oil is on the verge of being unable to sustain the Nigerian economy. It is time the country embark on large-scale cultivation of cash crops so that when crude oil fails, the export of cash crops will not fail the economy.