NAIJA'S GREEN GOLD: Transforming Agriculture into Nigeria's Economic Powerhouse

Naija's Green Gold: Transforming Agriculture into Nigeria's Economic Powerhouse opens with one of modern Nigeria's most instructive paradoxes: the world's largest cassava producer cannot feed its own people. Across twelve chapters, the book traces Nigeria's agricultural collapse from the groundnut pyramid era through the oil-decade neglect to the present crisis of import dependency, then pivots to the evidence-based case for agricultural renaissance. Chapter 2 examines how Lake Chad's 90-percent shrinkage has turned the northeastern food basket into a displacement crisis that directly feeds insurgency. Chapter 3 — the Cassava Conundrum — asks why 60 million metric tons of annual production generates neither food security nor export earnings. Chapter 4 examines the Anambra tractor saga and the systemic failure of mechanisation policy. Chapter 5 maps the middlemen monopoly: the supply chain between Kebbi's rice farms and Lagos's markets that absorbs more value than the farmers themselves. Chapter 6 documents the fertilizer farce — ghost schemes, cross-border smuggling, and the cooperative women in Kano State who discovered their subsidised fertilizer was being sold to Cameroon. The book then turns optimistic: Chapters 8-12 examine digital agriculture platforms like ThriveAgric and Farmcrowdy, the northern sun's solar irrigation potential, and the policy and institutional architecture that would transform Nigeria's agricultural paradox into the continent's most productive food system.