Trade Openness and Agricultural Export In Nigeria

Abstract

This work examined the impact of trade openness on Nigeria’s agricultural products exports for the period 1970 to 2018. Using ARDL methodology, the analysis revealed that in the long run trade openness had a positive but statistically insignificant effect on agricultural export while in the short run its effect was positive but significant. Based on such outcome, it was recommended amongst others that government should adopt selective trade barriers to allow the agricultural sector benefit from openness to trade.

Keywords: trade openness, agricultural exports, auto regressive distributive lag.

JEL: F19 F50 Q17