In a paper new metrics are used to delimit poor and non-poor farmers in Nigeria. The terms are international poverty line, national poverty line and community poverty line. Read more
It is now 313 days since the first COVID-19 case was reported in Nigeria. As at January 06, 2021 the confirmed cases are 97,303 with 1,324 fatalities, however, 77,299 have recovered. Based on equal days forecast , by November 15, 2021, Nigeria’s confirmed COVID-19 cases are forecast to be: 1,258,828 from grafted (spline) polynomial model without knots 954,792 from grafted (spline) polynomial model with knots 4,205,342 from smooth spline model 337,355 from ARIMA model (95% lower confidence band) 918,625 from ARIMA model (95% upper confidence band) 219,063 from quadratic polynomial model See more here
DEPLOYMENT OF TECHNOLOGY: A WAY OF ENHANCING AGRIBUSINESS Prof. J N Nmadu Agricultural Economics and farm Management Federal University of Technology, Minna Industrial Liaison officer Fellow and President, Nigerian Association of Agricultural Economists You may be aware that all my life, I deal with numbers and how to make them understandable for those who do not make meaning out of it. I try to determine the pattern in numbers and present them in a way that it makes more meaning. Essentially, and in the simplest of putting it, you may say that I apply technology to numbers and indeed I do. Over the years, there is one concept that is well misunderstood by majority of Nigerians: diversification. Each time we have a new government, they always promise to diversify Nigerian economy. And when they say, most of us will nod our heads in agreement. In most of the cases, they normally want to diversify from oil and gas sector into agriculture. So, what does that mean, and how will i
POTENTIALS IN NUPELAND AND HOW THEY CAN BE HARNESSED FOR ECONOMIC PROSPERITY [1] J N Nmadu Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management Federal University of Technology, Minna Protocol: The basic necessities of life are food, shelter and housing. Tied to this are needs for adequate medical care, effective and efficient infrastructure, adequate power and potable water, qualitative and affordable education and other necessities that must be available to sustain life. The lack of, or inadequacy of any of the above necessities makes an individual or group or nation poor. Therefore, poverty is not just lack of money, however, where there is enough money to afford all this necessities then there is prosperity. Poverty on the other hand is often defined as the [2] : Condition where people's basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter are not being met. Poverty is generally of two types i.e. absolute and relative poverty. Absolute poverty is synonymous with
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