The oil sector is dominant, as it is the largest exported commodity in Nigeria. However, evidence has shown that Nigeria, as an oil-dependent country, faces frequent oil price fluctuations that have posed greater challenges to Nigeria’s agriculture sector, hence affecting agricultural productivity. This necessitates the need to investigate the effect of oil price shocks on agricultural productivity in Nigeria. This study adopted the Hodrick Prescott data
filtering approach to check for the fluctuation of oil prices. The result revealed fluctuation in Nigeria oil price from 2018 up until recently. The long-run
relationship was established using the SVAR and the normalised equation. The result revealed a negative relationship between agricultural productivity,
oil price and real exchange rate. While a positive relationship exist between agricultural productivity, consumer price index and oil production. oil price
fluctuations affect most of the variables, however, oil price shock shows more variations across the time for agricultural productivity. To this end, this study revealed that oil price shock has an adverse effect on Nigeria’s productivity in agricultural sector. Hence, the government needs to implement a policy and programmes that will serve as oil price shock absorbers in order to sustain agricultural productivit
