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Improvement of Meteorological Services for Food Security in the Drylands of Nigeria

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Hussaini, A. (2022). Improvement of Meteorological Services for Food Security in the Drylands of Nigeria. Prevention and Treatment of Natural Disasters, 1(1), 50–56. https://doi.org/10.54963/ptnd.v1i1.59
Volume 1 Issue 1: June 2022
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  • Abdullahi Hussaini
    Nigerian Meteorological Agency
Well-coordinated efforts are being made in dishing out meteorological services by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency to ensure the delivery of timely, accurate and quality weather information for the development of agricultural activities in the drylands of Nigeria for sustainable food security. This is through the densification of the observations networks, acquisition of the relevant and latest weather instruments and improvement in weather equipment and training of technical data capturing system, data delivery system, calibration of equipment, installation, routine maintenance of the equipment and training and retraining of staff .This work is aimed at giving an insight to the efforts being made by NIMET towards the issuance of accurate weather information for agricultural development. The information contained in Seasonal Rainfall Prediction (SRP), 2019 and 2020 is given consideration in this study especially as it relates to agriculture for food security in the drylands of Nigeria

Keywords:

NIMET Agriculture Food security Drylands

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