Financing Nigeria's Agriculture: Is Nigeria's Agriculture Really Underfunded?
What five years of credit, capital and output data reveal.
Bank credit to Nigerian agriculture has more than doubled since 2021. Capital-market issuance has grown into a material funding channel. Public support has expanded. Yet the more useful question is not whether financing increased, but what it financed, where it was deployed, and whether the sector's productive capacity has grown alongside it. This commentary tracks five years of formal agricultural financing and tests it against sector output, food demand and trade. It asks a direct question: is Nigeria's agriculture really underfunded?
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