The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) and the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), have signed a 4-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on information dissemination about Climate change.
According to the DG of NIMET, Anthony Anuforom, weather information would ensure that farmers make informed decision to get the best from their investments and hard work.
He added that farmers depend on rain-fed agriculture in most of sub-Saharan Africa and over time they had adjusted their planting patterns and farming calendar to the onset, duration and end of the rainy seasons.
However, he pointed out that owing to the changing rainfall due to climate change, their planting patterns and farming calendar no longer match seasonal rainfall distributions which often lead to crop losses, hence the need to expose them to intensive training on various aspects of climate and weather patterns.
The NIMET boss stated that the growing concerns about the vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate variability and change, prompted the latest effort to enhance the farmers’ adaptive capacity, adding that the primary objective of the MoU was to make meteorological services more beneficial to the farmers and the IAR is to drive the process in the northern part of the country with the possibilities that it would gain momentum and spread to other zones for maximum reach.
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