Impacts of Climate Variability on Sustainable Agriculture in Imo State, Nigeria
Impacts of Climate Variability on Sustainable Agriculture in Imo State, Nigeria DOI: https://doi.org/10.30564/jgr.v4i1.2531 Abstract Rainfall and Temperature are important factors in agriculture especially in Nigeria where rain-fed agriculture is practiced extensively and agriculture contributes to food security and provides employment for urban and rural dwellers. Therefore, climate variability represents a major danger to agriculture by modifying the rainfall and temperature pattern, thereby resulting to a big peril in the sustainability of agriculture. This is the reason all countries of the world are concerned about the effects of climate variability on agriculture. This work therefore, examined the impact of climate variability on rainfall and temperature in Imo State, South Eastern Nigeria. The rainfall and temperature data were gotten from Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) for a period of 30 years which was analyzed by using descriptive statistics, decadal distribution, tre...