The blacksmithing industry is one of the economic
activities that existed in Kamuru from 1920 to present. Therefore, the
background of the study of the period 1960-2000, is to attempt doing justice to
the topic of this research by analyzing the relationship between the
blacksmiths and farmers in Kamuru District of Zangon Kataf local government
area. The importance of studying the topic of this discuss is to help future
researchers to understand the importance of the interrelationship between the
famers and the blacksmiths on the basis of economic dependence on each other,
during this period of study, which is specify above.  

Blacksmithing is one of the earliest vocational
technological and economic activities on earth, and as a result most of the
economic activities of mankind especially agriculture depended heavily on it.
For this reason, the economic importance of the profession cannot be over
emphasized. For instance, the butcher cannot conduct his activities without
depending on the blacksmiths. In the same vein, the farmers, local barbers, the
wood cutters, the cloth-dyers, and the host of others depended on them for
their working tools.

At the rise of African civilization the essential
tools to survival were found through the use of wood and stone. These tools
proved to work well enough for hunting, gathering, and farming, when man began
to grow plants for food by the used of agricultural technics. But as time
changes, mankind evolved, and it became necessary to find more efficient tools.
With the discovery of iron, men began to produce more complex and sophisticate
iron tools like knives, for domestic used, arrows, spares, axes, etc. for
hunting, and were as well used in the battle fields for the act of war.

The first chapter of this research gives the general
overview of the introduction of various key points of what the chapters of this
research is all about? Due to this fact, it is necessary to use all the main
sources that will imply the quality of the research, in conducting a thorough
research that will authenticate this very important information that is needed
for the purpose of this research project.

However, the second chapter focuses on the brief
history of the blacksmith, the geographical location of Kamuru District, the
people and peopling of Kamuru District, the establishment of the Kamuru
District, the economic and social history of 
Ikululand and traditional activities, and conclusion. The research will
claim all the sources the blacksmithing and farmers agriculture relationship in
Kamuru District as the significance of the study of research.

The chapter three will lay emphasis on the development
of iron tools, socio-cultural activities of the blacksmith and the relationship
between blacksmiths and farmers the establishment of the railway line and the
growth of blacksmithing in addition to the challenges fact by the blacksmith
industries.

Consequent upon this, the chapter four of this project
would look at the general contribution and development of the blacksmith to
agricultural production in Kamuru District, smiting as a small scale enterprise
nature of production, market and distribution of farm products and role of
blacksmith industries in agricultural development and conclusion.

The chapter five forms the summary and conclusion and
gives the bibliography. The reason that necessitated the research on this
project topic, is to enable the society to acquire more knowledge through the
study of this research and in order to add value to scholarship, through the
contributions and ideas of the blacksmiths, the research will help the society
in understanding their perception and views about the black smiting industry,
via the use of this reliable source, a written document.1

Furthermore, the farmers equally depended on the
blacksmithing industries in other obtained certain instrument for their daily
domestic activities for instance, the blacksmith produced their cooking utensil
and other ornament, while the farmers also produced food crops, which are
sometimes used as exchange for service render to the farmers by the blacksmith.
This study however, is very significance because it will further enhance the
relationship between farmers and the 
blacksmiths in  Kamuru community,
the entire Kamuru district and it will as well serve as a guide for other people
who will later conduct research in the study of the blacksmiths industries in
Zangon Kataf local government area, and Southern Kaduna at large. This is
because the afore-mention people above share common cultural heritage, and also
share similar experience in their interrelationship, which is the major focus
of this project research, the study of the blacksmithing industries in Kamuru.

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Statement of the Problem