RAINFALL VARIABILITY AND CASSAVA PRODUCTION OUTPUT IN KAURA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE
Fada Mallam, Birat Sylvester Garba and Sheyin Emmanuel Ali
Volume 1 Issue 1
Abstract
Climate change has brought about irregularity in Patten and intensity of climatic variables such as rainfall that is important in crop production, making planning in agriculture difficult. The importance of cassava in the diet of Nigeria and it industrial use necessitates it need to examine the relationship between rainfall variability and cassava production output in the study area. The cassava yield of the study area is influence by the extent of rainfall variation and cassava production output line graphs are tending toward the same direction. This research was carried in Kaura Local Government of Kaduna State and the primary objective was to assess the effect of rainfall variability and cassava production in the area. Fourteen years daily and monthly rainfall data with annual cassava production output data of Kaura Local Government were collection for the study. The analysis was carried out using E-view statistical software and a mathematical approach to determine the extent of variability. The result shows that rainfall variability is significantly affecting the cassava output. A single shift in the rainfall totals and rain days total affects cassava output toward the same direction. Rainfall total variability extent is 98.4% with 94.4% of rain days totals all explained the high variation between rainfall variability and the cassava output for the period under study. It is therefore recommend that an educating and sensitization team should be re- enforce to help educate farmers on the impact of rainfall variability and how they can subscribe to better crop variety that has resistance to the variability in the weather element named; rainfall. Key Words: Cassava Production Output, Climate, Rainfall, Variability
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