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NABTEB Economics 2024 Objective — Question 28

Question 28 of 50 from the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) Economics 2024 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.

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The low productivity per worker in agriculture experienced in West African countries is due to

  • A. A. laziness on the part of farmers
  • B. B. the use of simple traditional implementsCorrect
  • C. C. the presence of many extension workers
  • D. D. the law of increasing returns to scale

Explanation

There is low productivity or output per worker in the agricultural sector of West African countries because of the adoption of labour-intensive method of production and the use of crude implements such as hoes, cutlasses etc.

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