Growth-inducing Impact of Nigerian Capital Market on Agricultural Sector

The inability of the capital market to provide real sector firms opportunities to exploit their operations due to limited instruments which are traded on the exchange has hindered the growth of the sector in Nigeria.The derivatives market is still yet to be exploited in Nigeria by firms when compared to other developed capital markets. Even when some of these instruments are availablethe technicalities and modalities for using them are not made available to these firms.This also has contributed to the problems encountered by real sector in exploiting the potentials of the capital market in enhancing growth of that sector. It is against the foregoing that this research work seeks to answer the pertinent question of whether the capital market has growth-inducing impact on the agricultural sector as one of the core real sector of the economy with the objective of examining the extent by which market capitalization all-share index and market volume affect the performance of the agricultural sector.