The Nigerian Meteorological Agency, NIMET has been identified the need to optimise climate information as a way to improve agricultural yield to tackle food shortages in the country.
Executive Secretary, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, HEDA Arigbabu Suleiman, stated this in Ilorin, Kwara state. Arigbabu was speaking at a day’s Agriculture Stakeholders’ Workshop on improving the provision of climate information services to farmers organised by HEDA and Oxfam in partnership with the NIMET.
He added that the importance of climate information services to farmers in the country could not be over-emphasized, and that climate change impacts on the food crises and poverty induced conflicts experienced in Nigeria.
The Executive Secretary explained that the annual Seasonal Climate Predictions, SCP and other forecasts from NIMET to the agriculture sector were parts of critical efforts to building the resilience of smallholder farmers in the nation.
Also, a representative of the Kwara Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Mohammed Hassan said the state government was ready to bridge the communication gap among stakeholders.
