ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF
AGRICULTURE AS A STRATEGY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL
AREA
Obaniyi K.S. Aremu, C.O, Adedapo, O.A , Wale, A.J.. & Alade B.T.,
Rural area is the most vulnerable sector of the economy in terms of food insecurity ,
unemployment and poverty . However entrepreneurship has provided solution to some extent to
the problem of rural area. Since agriculture is the main source of livelihood of the rural
community, sustaining entrepreneurship is an emerging problem among the agricultural
communities as they seek key answers to sustainable agricultural development in rural
communities. This paper seeks to identify the challenges the farmers entrepreneurship faced and
how they can be motivated to overcome them in Nigeria. The finding revealed major challenges
to rural development to be: high illiteracy level , lack of human capacity development, lack of
continuity of government programme, lack of unity and cooperative efforts and high level of
corruption and crime . Therefore, this paper conclude that in order to ensure a sustainable
entrepreneurship and rural development , there is a need to have effective human capital
development , engagement of principle of continuity of successive government, a viable
cooperative system in the rural area and engagement of corruption free leadership system.
Therefore this paper recommend the China model of development of rural area. The Agricultural
programs adopted in China's rural development include decentralization of agricultural
production, green revolution, commodity-based production, and agricultural market
liberalization.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Sustainable , Rural ,Development, Agriculture