in every discipline thereby making every person capable of partly or wholly feeding him or herself". The program also seek to teach the rural farmers how to use modern farming tools. 1976: River Basin Development Authority: River Basin Development Decree was promulgated in 1976 to establish eleven River Basin Development Authorities. The initial aim of the authorities was to boost economic potentials of the existing water bodies particularly irrigation and fishery with hydroelectric power generation and domestic water supply as secondary objectives. The objective of the programme was later extended to other areas most important to production and rural infrastructural development. 1980: Green Revolution Programme: "Green Revolution was a programme inaugurated by Shehu Shagari in April 1980. The programme was aimed at increasing the production of food and raw materials in order to ensure food security and self-sufficiency in basic staples. Secondly, it aspired to boost production of livestock and fish in order to meet home and export needs and to expand and diversify the nation’s foreign exchange earnings through production and processing of export crops". 1986: Directorate of Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructure (DFRRI): It was set up in February 1986 to bring aout a comprehensive food, roads and rural infrastructure development in Nigeria. 1990: National Fadama Development Project (NFDP): The first National Fadama Development Project (NFDP-1) was designed to promote simple low-cost improved irrigation technology under World Bank financing. "The project was started in 1990 and is now in its third phase". "It is a $450 million project and is being implemented in 36 states and Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory". "Phase I and Phase II of the project helped to raise the incomes of rural farmers by 63 percent". Fadama is the Hausa name for irrigable, low-lying plains underlain by “shallow” aquifers found along major river systems. "The Fadama concept is an old tradition in Hausa, where flooded land is used for growing a variety of crops and small-scale irrigation"."The main objective was to sustainably increase the incomes of the Fadama users through the expansion of farm and non-farm activities with high value-added output". 1993: The Nigerian Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA): The authority aims at giving strategic public support for land development, assisting and promoting better uses of Nigeria's rural land and their resources, boosting profitable employment opportunities for rural dwellers, raising the level/standard of living of rural people, targeting and assisting in achieving food security through