THE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN OGURUGU


THE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN OGURUGU
Agricultural products and foods in Ogurugu
Ogurugu people are majorly farmers. Historically, the ancients of Ogurugu were so good in agriculture that they use the product to build edifices that would be regarded as one of the best in their times. Some of those buildings survived until today. Ogurugu's farm products include such crops as rice, cassava, cocoyam, yam, beans, groundnut, palm tree, banana, plantain, corn, mango, orange, millet, etc. There are also hunters and fishers in Ogurugu who bring their fishes and animals to the Central Market that opens every two days, or to as far as Nsukka, Onitsha and other parts of South-Eastern Nigeria. some people come from far distant lands to purchase agricultural products like bags of rice, cassava/akpu, garri, red oil, smoked fishes and meats. These commodities are of high demands especially in big cities.
If the Government can provide good roads networks and other agricultural infrastructure and inputs, the people will have economic respites and development that will encourage productivity.


For instance, in the whole of Enugu state, Ogurugu's akpu is unique amongst others. At the Old park of Ogige Market, Nsukka, wrapped akpu is sold as cheap as N30 or two N50. Retail resellers and restaurants owners buy it in quality and resell it N50 each or serve a plate of it for N150, N200, N250 etc depending on the absence, presence, quantity, and quality of the meat in the soup. Ogurugu's rice is very popular in the whole of southeastern Nigeria. In fact a very high percentage of most of what is referred to as Adani local rice in various communities in Enugu are Ogurugu rice, especially Ada rice.



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