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Farm Settlements in Eastern Nigeria: A Geographical Appraisal

Barry Floyd Dr. Floyd was formerly senior lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Miss Adinde, his collaborator, was an honors graduate of the University. Dr. Floyd is now head of the Department of Geography at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
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Monica Adinde Dr. Floyd was formerly senior lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Miss Adinde, his collaborator, was an honors graduate of the University. Dr. Floyd is now head of the Department of Geography at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
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  • T. W. Schultz: Transforming Traditional Agriculture (New Haven, 1964), p. 4.
  • G. Hunter: The New Societies of Tropical Africa (London, 1962), p. 65.
  • The division is that followed by Hunter, op. cit., p. 109.
  • Schultz, op. cit., p. 102.
  • H. P. Elliott: Farm Settlements in Eastern Nigeria, Background and Objectives as a Means of Farmer Training. Paper read at United Nations, F.A.O. Seminar on Agricultural Education and Training in Africa (Zaria, Northern Nigeria, June 28th-July 7th, 1965), p. 50.
  • Eastern Nigeria: Eastern Nigeria Development Plan 1962–68. Official Document No. 8 of 1962 (Enugu, 1962), p. 9. While there have been some significant revisions in the estimates of expenditures under the Six Year Plan (thus modifying the percentage distribution of proposed expenditures), the original allocation of $17,150,000 for the Farm Settlement has not been changed. Ministry of Economic Planning, Eastern Nigeria, First Progress Report, Eastern Development Plan 1962–68. Official Document No. 15 of 1964 (Enugu, 1964), Appendix “Revised List of Projects and Expenditure Provision,” p. 59.
  • Mordechal E. Kreinin: Israel and Africa: A Study in Technical Cooperation (New York, 1964), p. 13.
  • Government Press Conference, ENIS Bulletin No. E2,200 (Enugu, January 18th, 1961).
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Eastern Nigeria: Eastern Nigeria Farm Settlement Scheme, Agricultural Bulletin No. 2 (Enugu, n.d.), p. 3.
  • In the traditional settlement pattern of Eastern Nigeria, agricultural land falls into two geographic categories: garden or “compound” land, and main farming areas. “Compound” land is that nearest to the dwellings and is farmed largely by women with their kitchen-garden crops. The main or outer farm land is worked largely by the men and produces the subsistence crops of yam, cassava, maize (corn), etc.
  • Ministry of Agriculture, op. cit., p. 10.
  • See L. T. Chubb: Ibo Land Tenure (Ibadan, 1961). See also, M. M. Green: Land Tenure in an Ibo Village. Monographs on Social Anthropology, No. 6, London School of Economics and Political Science (London, 1941).
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Eastern Nigeria: Annual Report Agriculture Division 1962–63, Official Document No. 29 of 1964 (Enugu, 1964), p. 32.
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Annual Report…, p. 33.
  • Ibid.
  • But see pp. 223–224.
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Easter Nigeria: Eastern Nigeria Farm Settlement Scheme, Technical Bulletin No. 6 (Enugu, 1963), p. 9.
  • I. Eleje: Eastern Nigeria Farm Settlement Scheme: A Practical Demonstration of Pragmatic Socialism and Training in Leadership, paper read at Conference on Tomorrow's Africa, organized by M.R.A. (Enugu, December 14th, 1964), p. 13.
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Annual Report… p. 34.
  • Federal Office of Statistics, Agricultural Sample Survey, Bulletin 5, 1959/60, Eastern Nigeria (Lagos, 1961).
  • See Ministry of Agriculture, Eastern Nigeria, Annual Report…, Section D—Investigational Work; Subsection 2—Botany; Subsection 3—Entomology, pp. 52–60.
  • For a description of the change in settlement patterns going on elsewhere in Eastern Nigeria, see R. K. Udo: Disintegration of Nucleated Settlement in Eastern Nigeria, Geogr. Rev., Vol. 55, 1965, pp. 53–67.
  • Ministry of Agriculture: Eastern Nigerian Farm Settlement Scheme, Technical Bulletin No. 6 (Enugu. 1963), p. 11.
  • See R. K. Udo: The Migrant Tenant Farmer of Eastern Nigeria, Africa, Vol. 34, No. 4 (October, 1964), pp. 326–339.
  • See p. 209.
  • See pp. 205–206.
  • See Ministry of Agriculture, Crop Calendar for Eastern Nigeria, Technical Bulletin No. 8 (Enugu, 1965).
  • W. S. Mann: Viable Farming Unit for Settlers in Farm Settlements in Eastern Nigeria, Agriculture Division, Ministry of Agriculture (Enugu, May, 1963), p. 8.
  • See Michael Chisholm, Rural Settlement and Land Use, an essay in location (London, 1962).
  • W. A. Hance: The Geography of Modem Africa (New York, 1964), pp. 323–325.
  • Hon. P. N. Okeke, Minister of Agriculture, Eastern Nigeria, in speech at Committee Stage of the 1965 Budget Debate. Government Printer, Parliamentary Debates, Eastern House of Assembly, Official Report, Vol. 5, No. 17 (Enugu, 26th April, 1965), p. 495.
  • See pp. 197–198.
  • T. Schultz: Transforming Traditional Agriculture, p. 162.
  • Ibid.
  • Ibid., p. 5.
  • M B. N. Floyd: “Changing Patterns of African Land Use in Southern Rhodesia” (Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Lusaka, 1962), Vol. II, Chapter 12, pp. 232–258, et passim.
  • Clyde Mitchell: “Labour Migration and the Tribe,” in Prudence Smith (ed.), Africa in Transition (London, 1958), p. 60.
  • C. W. Lynn: Agricultural Extension and Advisory Work, with Special Reference to the Colonies (London, 1949), p. 104.
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Eastern Nigeria: Quarterly Bulletin 1st January-31st March, 1965 (Enugu, May, 1965), p. 5.
  • J. C. U. Eme: Sociological Problems Connected with Farm Settlement Schemes, Appendix VI in Ministry of Agriculture, Eastern Nigeria Farm Settlement Scheme, Third Annual Programme Planning Conference, Technical Bulletin, No. 4 (Enugu, January, 1963), p. 61.
  • H. P. Elliott: Farm Settlements in Eastern Nigeria: Background and Objectives as a Means of Farm Training, p. 51. “See pp. 200–201.
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Eastern Nigeria: Quarterly Bulletin 1st October-31st December, 1964 (Enugu, February, 1965), p. 12.
  • See pp. 200–201.
  • H. P. Elliott: Farm Settlements in Eastern Nigeria…, p. 58.
  • A. H. Hanson: Nile and Niger: Two Agricultural Projects, Public Administration, Vol. 38, 1960, p. 58.
  • Hon. P. N. Okeke, op. cit., p. 497.
  • D. L. MacFarlane and M. A. Oworen: Investment in Oil Palm Plantations in Nigeria: A Financial and Economic Appraisal (unpublished manuscript).
  • Elliott: Farm Settlements in Eastern Nigeria…, p. 52.

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