Course Description
This course aim is to familiarize students with a broad range of the methods and models applied by economists in the analysis of firms and industries. A broader goal is that students who take the course will, by working extensively with theoretical models, acquire analytical skills that are transferable to other kinds of intellectual problems.
Course Content
- Principles of Agricultural Economics
- Introduction to Marketing and Prices
- Introduction to Farm Management and Production Economics
- Agricultural Resources Use and Project Evaluation
- Agricultural and National Development
- Farm Management, Farm Records and Farm Account
- Agribusiness Management
- Agricultural Production Economics
- Agricultural Project Appraisal, Management and
Evaluation
- Agricultural Law and Policies
- Resource and environmental challenges facing agriculture
Learning Outcomes
- To produce academically competent and
professionally efficient graduates who are able to manage and direct the
nation’s agricultural economy.
- To provide courses needed for accelerated and
improved communication of Agricultural knowledge, skills and values to the
majority of farmers and home makers.
- To conduct research into the recurring problems and needs of the Nigerian agricultural society in order to find short, medium and long-terms solutions.
Compulsory Reading Materials,
- R.G. & R.A. King. 1970. Markets, Prices, and Interregional Trade. John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York NY.
- Dorfman,
J.H. 2014. Economics and Management of the Food Industry. Routledge, New York
NY.
Optional Reading Materials
- Norwood,
F.B. & J.L. Lusk. 2008. Agricultural Marketing and Price Analysis. Pearson
Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River NJ.
- Rodrik,
D. 2015. Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science. W.W.
Norton & Company, New York NY.
- Tomek,
W.G. & K.L. Robinson. 1972. Agricultural Product Prices. Cornell University
Press, Ithaca NY.
- Vercammen,
J. 2011. Agricultural Marketing: Structural Models for Price Analysis.
Routledge, New York NY.
- Facilitator: Sarah Anang