Evaluating Human Capital Development and Sustainable Agricultural Development in Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined how Nigeria's agricultural output sustainability was impacted by human capital development during a 44-year period, from 1981 to 2024. The study specifically looked at the effects of labour force participation, government spending on health, education, and agriculture on real agricultural GDP. The autoregressive distributed lag model method was used to the data set, which included labour force participation, government investments agriculture, health, education, and real agricultural GDP. The information came from the statistics bulletins published by the CBN and NBS. Long-term relationships between Nigeria's agricultural output and the development of human capital are demonstrated by the findings. The study also found that labour force participation, government investment on agriculture, health, education, impacts real agricultural GDP in a favourable and substantial way in the short run.