**3.4 Financial constraints**

Research and development in organic farming is normally constrained by scarce funding from government and large commercial stakeholders, and smaller commercial players are generally unable to allocate funds for research and development. In order to have a breakthrough, research organizations such as the Colloquium of Organic Research in the United Kingdom (UK) and the Scientific Committee for Organic Agriculture Research in the USA should be formed in the developing countries such as Nigeria to boost agriculture and provide employment for the increasing population.

Organic agriculture in developing economy can be improved upon with adequate funding, removal of production subsidies that have adverse economic, social and environmental effects, investment in agricultural science and technology that can sustain the necessary increase of food supply without harmful tradeoffs involving excessive use of water, nutrients or pesticides.
