Title page                                        i
Approval page                                    ii
Dedication                                    iii
Acknowledgement                                iv
Abstract                                        vi

Chapter ONE

: INTRODUCTION
1.1    Background of the study                        1
1.2    Statement of the problem                        6
1.3    objective of the study                        7
1.4    Significance of the study                        10
1.5    Scope and limitation of the study                11
1.6    Limitation of the study                        11
1.7    Definitions of operational terms                12

Chapter TWO

: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1    The meaning of agriculture                    14
2.2    The activities of an agriculturist                15
2.3    The concept of food productivity                17
2.4    Importance of food productivity                18
2.5    The concept of agricultural insurance            20
2.6    Reasons for agricultural insurance in Nigeria        23
2.7    Agricultural insurance scheme in Nigeria            26
2.8    Benefits of agricultural insurance in Nigeria        28
2.9    various risk exposed to effective food productivity
in Nigeria                                    31
2.10    various insurance products available for the
management of the productivity risks            34
2.11    Problems of effective and efficient management
of agricultural insurance scheme in Nigeria        36
2.12    Prospect of effective and efficient management of agricultural insurance scheme in Nigeria.                    41
2.13    Theoretical framework                        47
2.14    Empirical review                            49
Reference                                    55

Chapter THREE

: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY    
3.1    Research design                            59
3.2    Source of data                                60
3.2.1 Primary data                                60
3.3    Study area                                60
3.4    Population of the study                        61
3.5    Techniques used in determining the sample size    61
3.6    Reliability of the instrument                    63
3.7    Statistical method used in data presentation
and analyses                                63
3.8    Statistical method used in testing the hypothesis    64

Chapter FOUR

: PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RESULTS    
4.1    Presentation of data                            66
4.2    Data analysis                                70
4.3    Test of hypothesis                            74
4.4    Discussions of result of hypothesis                  90

Chapter FIVE

: SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Summary of Research findings                    93
5.2 Conclusion                                    94
5.3 Recommendations                            95
5.4 Suggestions for furthers studies                    96
Bibliography                                97
Appendix                                    101