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While federal and state governments are yet lamenting the revenue crisis induced by the sustaining fall in crude oil prices, Enugu State government is taking steps to reposition commercial agriculture. The main problems of agriculture in Nigeria are poor funding and dependence on crude technology. Peasant farmers account for 80 per cent of Nigeria’s agricultural produce but they have no access to bank credit facilities. They depend on the hoe and the cutlass – the crudest agricultural implements that are hardly in use anywhere else in the world