IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN THE NILE AND NIGER BASIN : LSUS
GEOGRAPHY SSS2 THIRD TERM
WEEK – EIGHT
IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN THE NILE AND NIGER BASIN
REFERENCE
Essential Geography for Senior Secondary Schools by O.A. Iwena
IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN THE NILE AND NIGER BASIN
Irrigation agriculture is the type of agriculture which involves the artificial application of water to soil or land for farming purposes. Irrigation is practiced in areas where rainfall is insufficient like Egypt and Sudan in the Nile Basin (using River Nile) and Mali and Northern Nigeria in the Niger Basin using River Niger.
Irrigation makes farming possible throughout the year. River Nile is so important to Egypt hence the popular saying “No Nile, No Egypt”.
Needs for Irrigation
(i) Rainfall is low and unreliable in both Nile and Niger basins.
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- REVISION/SETTLEMENT INTERACTIONS
- GEO-POLITICAL ISSUES: LAND RECLAMATION
- GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)
- AFRICA: LOCATION, POSITION, SIZE AND POLITICAL DIVISION
- AFRICA: RELIEF AND DRAINAGE
- CLIMATE AND VEGETATION
- LUMBERING IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA (ZAIRE AND NIGERIA)
- IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN THE NILE AND NIGER BASIN
- PLANTATION AGRICULTURE IN WEST AND EAST AFRICA
- FRUIT FARMING IN MEDITERRANEAN REGIONS OF AFRICA
- Chapters 10
- Category SSS2
- Author ClassNotes Edu
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