Nigeria has, in the past, tried various rural development strategies to achieve agricultural development and national food security. Among these has been the setting up of farm settlement schemes, marketing boards, the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme, Operation Feed the Nation, the Land Use Decree, etc. These could not achieve much because of various political, economic and social characteristics of the Nigerian population. As a further step, river basin development authorities (RBDAs) were established. The objectives of the RBDAs and their geographical coverage brought the confidence and the possibility of finally achieving the goal of rural transformation. However, like other schemes, the RBDAs are beset with problems which are also inherent in the present economic set-up of the country, and which would require double the energy spent in the past, to have the RBDAs perform the wonders, which the other strategies have failed to achieve.

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尼日利亚的灌溉管理：卡诺河灌溉计划的经验教训*

尼日利亚过去曾尝试各种农村发展战略来实现农业发展和国家粮食安全。其中包括建立农场安置计划、营销委员会、农业信贷担保计划、养活国家行动、土地使用法令等。 由于尼日利亚的各种政治、经济和社会特征，这些都没有取得多大成效。人口。更进一步，建立了流域开发机构（RBDA）。RBDA 的目标及其地理覆盖范围为最终实现农村转型目标带来了信心和可能性。然而，与其他计划一样，RBDA 也面临着该国当前经济结构中固有的问题，，这是其他策略未能实现的。