The Institutional Framework Surrounding Agricultural Transportation Policy in Nigeria

Abstract Despite the potential of agriculture in Nigeria, transport infrastructure projects in Nigeria have been adversely affected by poor policy formulation. This paper presents transportation infrastructure management within the past years in Nigeria and identifies that poor integration and management of the transportation sector with other productive sectors of the economy. For example from 2009 to 2011 budgets, the transport sector had the lowest allocation which was approximately 10 billion naira while other sectors—Education, Power; Works and Housing, and Urban Development had 60 bill...