Agricultural Financing, Agricultural Output Growth and Employment Generation in Nigeria

This study investigates the impact of agricultural financing and output growth on employment generation in Nigeria from 1981 to 2017. The adopts framework Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Model for analysis. empirical results show that while increases both short run long run, lag mainly run. Other variables found have significant effect were price labor force population, wages aggregate expenditure insignificant. concludes policy makers should endeavor see every fund allocated a specific schemes interventions be fully utilized its purpose. To increase opportunities, there careful monitoring implementation each scheme realize their objectives.