FOOD SECURITY .
As the new planting season approaches WUFAS AGR0Net provides lucid outlook for crops of comparable advantages in various ecological zones of Nigeria.
The followings are the various ecological zones in Nigeria with probable crops production.
- SAHEL SAVANNA, - SUDAN SAVANNA, -GUINEA SAVANNA, - MOUNTAIN GRASSLAND, - RAIN FOREST, - FRESH WATER SWAMP, -MANGROVE SWAMP FOREST.
SAHEL SAVANNA - Lake Chad region /basins. with Low grass , thorny shrubs and bushes .
The soil types are slightly alkaline and moderately saline. Across the region.
STATE CONSTITUENT
Upper Borno
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION - Fishing with Pasture grass for livestock.
SUDAN SAVANNA - Grassland with scattered trees.
Soil type - Slightly saline with mordrate alkalinity in various locations. Within the slightly saline soil, with adequate irrigation Fruits and vegetables eg Tomatoes thrives best.
STATES CONSTITUENT :
Sokoto, Zamfara, Kebbi, Bauchi, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Yobe, Borno, Gombe, (Upper Adamawa and Niger).
CROPS PRODUCTION
Tobacco, Cereals, Legumes, HORTICULTURAL (Fruits and vegetables ) Tomatoes and others Cowpeas, Soghium,Millet, Sesame, Gum Arabic, Maize, Cotton, Groundnut, Rice, Wheat, Cassava, ,Carrots , etc. --- (RICE could be sourced enormously in
Hadejah Jigawa state. ).
GUINEA SAVANNA - Woodland with long grass. - mostly slightly saline.
STATES CONSTITUENT.:
KADUNA, FCT, Nasarawa, plateau, Taraba, Kogi, Benue, Upper Kwara /Oyo and lower Adamawa.
CROPS :Cereals, Legumes, Sugar cane, Tubers, Fruits and vegetables, Sheabutter, Cashew, Cassava, Yam, Soya beans, Groundnut, --- ( Ginger is widely grown in Southern Kaduna , it's an export crop to Asia and Europe. )
---- In Benue, Tubers (Potatoes, Yam,)and Soya beans thrives best in this throve .
---- ORANGE concentrate from Benue can exceed local demand if importation is banned.
MOUNTAIN GRASSLAND is found at the tail end of Northeast of Nigeria.
This is a picturesque and mountainous area transverse by major river valleys of Gongola, Donga, Taraba and Benue. are all sourced from the eastern mountain ranges of the Adamawa and Mambila plateau. Prominent typographical land forms are the kamale peak, the three sister rocks in Song, Mandara, Alantika mountains the Hong hills and Mambila plateau.
--- Mambila plateau is naturally endowed, a land flowing with the (biblica) milk and honey a delight to National and international corporate entrepreneurs owning vast plantations of Food crops such as Tea, coffee, Sugar cane, rice, livestock and other valueable Cereals. It is a home to the much anticipated Green energy (electrical) source. Mambila plateau, if properly annexed with good security is like the Isreal of these world in Nigeria.
STATES CONSTITUENT : - TARABA
CROPS : Cereals,Sesame, Rice, Legumes, Cassava, plantations of Coffee, Tea, Cotton, Sugar cane,with Fruits and vegetables etc. Livestock and Fisheries.
RAIN FOREST
STATES CONSTITUENT:
Kwara, Oyo, Ekiti, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Edo , Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi, Enugu ,Cross River, lower Kwara and upper Delta.& Cross River.
Forestry with wide life preservation. Livestock, Fishing and Poultry.
CROPS :
Tree crops - COCOA, Kolanut, Cashew, Oil palm, Yam , Rice (upland and swamp) with swamp rice produces double the Yeild of former. (Abakaliki rice. )
Essential oils - Sunflower, Castor beans and Mellon .
Ogun state is home to OFADA rice - a delicacy awaiting international discovery.
FRESH WATER SWAMP FOREST.
Transversing through Lagos, Edo,: Delta.Others, Cross River and Akwa Ibom.
CROPS PRODUCTION.
Lagos has a comparative advantage over Coconut, it has about 180km of Coconut groves. While Coco yam, Fruits and vegetables abound. Poultry and Fisheries are in abundance in the state.
Edo and Delta , Akwa Ibom are good in Rubber, Oil palm plantations and Forestry (Timber). Tubers (Yam).
MANGROVE SWAMP FOREST.
STATE CONSTITUENTS :
Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers.
CROPS : HORTICULTURAL CROPS eg . Fruits and vegetables. Food crops eg. Cassava, Coco yam, Plantain, Banana, Maize, Coconut, Rubber Oil palm etc.
CONCLUSION
----- Nigeria is endowed with about 90million hectares of arable land that can produce 8-11 metric tons per hectare of crops in which only about 60 million hectares is farmed more hand should be on deck for more aggressive commercial farming.
--- Security - the planned agricRangers to protect the farming communities is a welcome idea from the Federal government.
--- HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT IN FOOD PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY is key to Processing Food, Beverages, Dairy products, Oil Extraction, Drying and others.
NIGERIANS !!!!! GROW WHAT WE EAT & EAT WHAT WE GROW.
GOD BLESS NIGERIA
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