About 70 million subsistence farmers have started receiving guidance from the Nigeria Meteorological Agency to achieve bountiful harvests through data-guided farming in the country, NiMet announced on Thursday.
The Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, Charles Anosike, disclosed this during a partnership meeting with the American-based Global Green Development Group, and NOAH ReGen.
The partnership is to collaborate on the Jatropha-To-Biofuel programme in Nigeria.
The NiMet CEO said the partnership is in line with the mandate of the agency to observe and monitor the atmospheric condition in Nigeria, analyse the data, and generate and disseminate forecasts which contribute to socio-economic development.
Speaking at the meeting held at the headquarters of NiMet in Abuja, Anosike said, “NiMet has a wide ecosystem of climate change actors and partners.
“Also, we do a lot of work with over 70 million subsistence farmers in Nigeria. We have begun the dissemination of our seasonal climate prediction to these farmers and other end users.”
