The Agricultural And Food Sciences

In this beautiful earth, there are so many countries we could learn about and so many interesting facts.Most people try to choose the easy route and find out more about the U.S.A. but today were doing Africa, better yet Nigeria which is in West Africa.An online article states that,Nigeria is mostly known for their oil and petroleum production. This country is located on the western coast of africa with climates ranging from arid to humid equatorial, some of the things that their land is environmentally known for are the savannas, tropical forest and coastal wetlands. Nigeria covers 356,669 square miles about twice the size of California. With hundreds of people, this means there's over

Food production in Africa has to be improved dramatically. There is a food deficit as agricultural development has not reached its full potential yet. African farmers today use almost no fertilizer and only 4 percent of their cropland has been irrigated (Paarlberg, 2010). African governments should take on the role of investing into the development of agriculture in the region. It is surprising that while 60 percent of the population depends on the farming sector, the government only invests 5 percent of its budget on agriculture (Paarlberg,

Nigeria is a West African country, known to be the most populous country in Africa, as well as one of the strongest economically. Nigeria is a founding member of many international organizations, including Commonwealth of Nations,

According to the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Abu Dhabi (2013), Nigeria is a country in West Africa that it is primarily composed of three distinct ethnic groups: Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo. Of these groups, the Igbo are known for being the most professionally oriented and independent in the country. English is the primary language, although many Nigerians speak multiple languages, including one or more of the 400 native languages. There are also two major trade languages, pidgin and

Nigeria is located on the western coast of Africa, surrounded by Benin, Cameroon, and Niger. This country is known to have one of the largest populations among the African countries. Falola (3) says that not only it has large population, but also its land size is a little bigger than the size of the U.S. state of Texas. Nigeria has about 170 million residences which is about half of current population in United States. In other words, Nigeria has a very dense population regarding its size of land. Within 170 million people, there are twelve dominant ethnic groups, such as Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Fulani and etc., and about 200 more distinct ethnic groups are present. Therefore, hundreds of different languages are also used in Nigeria. Lastly,

The low average yields of these staple crops are persistent across the majority of farmers’ fields and when this is met with increasing demands for these grains, food insecurity becomes prevalent. Unlike other developing countries around the world, Africa’s food insecurity is directly related to their inability to produce enough food (Sanchez 2002:2019). Some may argue that this issue of low crop yields in Africa can be solved by

Nigeria is an Agricultural and oil rich nation but characterised by Political instability, corruption, poor

The special interest of Government in the Agricultural sector is due to its relevance in the provision of raw materials for industries and most importantly the provision of food for the teaming population of Nigeria. (Akiri and Adofu 2007). Basically, agriculture provides 65% employment opportunities for the population to reduce poverty and contributes to the growth of the economy (Okoro, 2011).

Nigeria’s three largest ethnic groups, the Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo, represent 71 percent of the population because the remaining 300-plus ethnic groups go for the final one-fifth of the population, and of the remaining 29 percent of the population about one-third consists of groups numbering more than 1 million members each.Nigeria has many ethnic groups going from Yoruba people, Igbo people, Fula people, Hausa people, and much more. Nigeria's people can speak at least 500 languages based on how many ethnicities there are and Hausa having the largest one. The main ethnicities in nigeria is Yoruba , Ibo , and Hausa-Fulani. Apparently there are problems based on ethnicity and religion that has been a problem since the British left. The culture aspect of nigeria for their clothing is Gele where it is a scarf that women wr their heads with. An agbada that men wear which is a robe that are often worn at formal ceremonies. The last is a Buba that is loose fitting and that is V-necked. Nigerians make sculptures that are used for blessings, healings, or having bad luck. As well, the culture shows how their brings a big impact on their life such as dancing .

Economic diversification holds the key to the emergence of a robust Economy that is capable of creating jobs and reducing poverty and unemployment. President Buhari’s administration needs to articulate and implement an economic blueprint for the diversification of the Nigerian economy, leveraging sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, hospitality, tourism and ICT to boost productive activities and revenue

Nigeria is the highest populated country on the African continent. It is currently estimated at 167 million people (Subsidy Reinvestment Program SURE 2011). The country‘s estimated population includes 49% females and 51% males. The population grew by 2.5% in 2008, declined by 1.9% in 2009. The birth rate for the two years also reflects this decline from 43 births per 1,000 in 2008 to 37 per 1,000 in 2009. The death rate equally declined from 18 deaths per 1,000 in 2008 to 16.56 per 1,000 in 2009 (SURE program 2011). The life expectancy at birth was 46.94 years as of 2009. From the last census estimates, in 2006, 66.9% of Nigerians above the age of 15 are literate; while 71.3% of males in this category were literate whilst the figure for females was estimated at 62.4%. There is a high rate of urbanization which stands at 5.5% per annum (percentage of people living in urban area). While in 1985, 39% of the population lived in cities, by the year 2000, it had risen to 43.5%. Presently it is estimated at 1⁄2 the national population and this is expected to rise to about 70% in the next ten years

Nigeria is a developing country and the most populous country in Africa. There has been always the quest to feed the needy. There is freedom to almost everything in the country. Most of the laws governing the environment are nearly inactive. Thus, making the country to suffer soil degradation. Almost every Nigerian is a farmer and children are being taught agriculture both in primary and junior secondary schools, but optional in senior secondary. Nigeria practices two types of agriculture, which are Industrialized or commercial and Subsistence Agriculture. Most families are subsistence farmers and they use improvised equipment. In the savannah region, animal husbandry dominates the agricultural practices, while in the forest vegetation is dominated with tuber crop.

Nigeria, the giant of Africa, is the most populous nation in Africa with a population of 174 million people. Nigeria is located at the Western part of Africa. It is guarded by 4 nations; Niger (north), chad and Cameron (east), Benin (west), and the gulf of guinea at the south {Johnson}. Due to its location in Africa, the country experiences a tropical climate that changes periodically from rainy season to dry seasons.

Ghana after its independence in 1957 became the most prosperous country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ghana’s main source of income was agriculture, which contributed to half of its GDP. With its rapidly

Nigeria 's economy is characterized by vast rural-based conventional sector with almost 70% of the assemblage lives on agriculture guiding to legal felling, infringements by farmers and cattle herders, firewood collectors and illicit procurement of shielded wildlife. Fast growth and high measure of poorness (Omonoma, 2009), has led to burden on water, land and other natural resources. while many of the local communities live on the wild species biodiversity (Northerner Governing of Nigeria). Mismanagement and over exploitation of these natural resources has led to degradation of natural forest, loss of ground fertility, water, environmental abjection, extinction of biodiversity,