Proposed Organisation of Rural
Communities for Increased
Productivity and Development

By
Air Commodore Larry Koinyan

Introduction
The basic aim of rural development as perceived by Directorate of Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructures (DFRRI), is to improve the quality of life and standard of living of the majority of the people in the rural areas, by substantially improving the quality, value and and nutritional balance of their food intake; raising the quality of rural housing and living environment; improving the health conditions of the rural peoples; creating greater opportunities for human development and employment; and making it possible to have a
progressively wider range of goods and services for consumption of rural dwellers themselves as well as for exchange.

The aim is also to use the enormous resources of the rural areas to lay a solid foundation for the security, socio-cultural, political and economic growth and development of the nation by linking the growth and development activities of the rural areas to those of the local government areas, the state and the nation.

To achieve these objectives, there must be vastly increased and sustained rural productivity, growth and development. Indeed, a nation that does not embark on serious local production of a very large percentage of its requirements of goods and services by utilising its own locally produced raw materials, indigenously developed/adapted
technology and know-how as well as its own organisational skills, cannot lay any claims to real growth and development.

The place to start this transformation for greater productivity is in our rural areas, given their vast land and labour resources. However, no genuine national transformation is possible without an effective and efficient socio-spatial organisation of all the communities of the nation from the grassroots to the urban centres. If we wish, therefore, for genuine
growth and development in Nigeria, we must pay very great and meticulous attention to the organisation of all our communities, starting from the grassroots upwards. To do this successfully, we must first of all 337700 identify and understand how our peoples in the various parts of the country have traditionally been organised for their socio-cultural, political and economic activities.

This understanding coupled with the application of modern trends in organisational arrangements for productive activities should form the spring-board from which we can transform all our communities into virile, viable and conducive systems for mobilising and
directing all our national development and growth efforts. This is crucial because “it is people who build nations.” So we must start by organising our people in whatever setting they live in to engage in greater well-being
of the nation.

Indeed, the directorate makes bold to say that development strategy that cannot help people transfer their immediate environment to provide for themselves the quantity and quality of the goods and services they require to make their lives progressively more comfortable is severely flawed. What we should then do urgently is to install the required
organisational structure and thereafter through effective mobilisation get our people to maximise their resources to their immediate advantage and that of the nation.

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