Irrigation has been identified as a key to achieving food demand in the face of rapid increase
in population and climate change impact. In northern Nigeria for example, irrigation practice …

In the face of declining water resources and low agricultural water productivity, it is vital to
increase agricultural production efficiency and efficiency of water usage. The efficacy of …

Assessment of irrigated lands by conventional means of survey requires a great deal of time,
but the application of geospatial analysis using remote sensing data and GIS techniques …

Continuous irrigation in the study area may lead to the development of salinity or sodicity
problems that may affect the agricultural productivity. Soil salinity assessment was …

Irrigated agriculture has been identified as an important practice to achieving food security
and socio-economic development in the face of rapid population growth and climatic …

The measure of degraded lands of a region provides for unfurling the natural asset, soil, for
its suitability for crops. An attempt has been made to identify, map, and monitor the dynamics …

To empirically factor out the perceived constraints affecting rice production in the Kano River
Irrigation Project Kano State, Nigeria, the current study used cross-sectional data collected …

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Salinity has become a major issue in most large scale irrigation schemes, assessing the
extent of the spread has become daunting and laborious. Remote sensing techniques were …

Soil quality analysis for irrigation in river Katsina-Ala catchment areas of Benue State, North-
central, Nigeria was carried out in this research. Several soil samples from three selected …