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Agriculture is a major sector of the Nigerian economy, [ 1] accounting for up to 35% of total employment in 2020. [ 2] According to the FAO, [ 3] agriculture remains the foundation of the Nigerian economy, [ 1] providing livelihood for most Nigerians and generating millions of jobs. [ 4][ 5][ 6] Along with crude oil, Nigeria relies on the ...
Agrifood systems encompass the primary production of food and non-food agricultural products, as well as in food storage, aggregation, post-harvest handling, transportation, processing, distribution, marketing, disposal and consumption. [ 1][ 2] Within agrifood systems, food systems comprise all food products that originate from crop and ...
History of Nigeria. The Nok culture is a population whose material remains are named after the Ham village of Nok in southern Kaduna State of Nigeria, where their terracotta sculptures were first discovered in 1928. [ 1][ 2] The Nok people and the Gajiganna people may have migrated from the Central Sahara, along with pearl millet and pottery ...
History of Nigeria. Depiction of Benin City by a Dutch illustrator in 1668. The wall-like structure in the center probably represents the walls of Benin, housing the Benin bronze decorated historic Benin City Palace. The history of the territories which since ca. 1900 have been known under the name of Nigeria during the pre-colonial period ...
Daima is a mound settlement located in Nigeria, near Lake Chad, and about 5 kilometers away from the Nigerian frontier with Cameroon. [ 1] It was first excavated in 1965 by British archaeologist Graham Connah. Radiocarbon dating showed the occupations at Daima cover a period beginning early in the first millennium BC, and ending early in the ...
Nigerian cuisine consists of dishes or food items from the hundreds of Native African ethnic groups that comprises Nigeria. [ 1][ 2] Like other West African cuisines, it uses spices and herbs with palm oil or groundnut oil to create deeply flavored sauces and soups. [ 3]
A food storage calculator can be used to help determine how much of these staple foods a person would need to store in order to sustain life for one full year. In addition to storing the basic food items many people choose to supplement their food storage with frozen or preserved garden-grown fruits and vegetables and freeze-dried or canned ...
217,313 km 2 (83,905 sq mi) Location of Nigeria. Satellite image of Nigeria. Nigeria is a country in West Africa. It shares land borders with the Republic of Benin to the west, Chad and Cameroon to the east, and Niger to the north. [ 1] Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the south and it borders Lake Chad to the northeast.