Food security in nigeria: a development framework for strengthening igbemo-ekiti as a regional agropole

Basorun, Joseph Omoniyi; Fasakin, J. O.

doi:10.2495/sdp-v7-n4-495-510

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“…In addition, on average, farmers realize that using local technology causes low crop productivity as well as low income. These problems generally occur due to the lack of institutional support from the government for farmers' activities [15]. Meanwhile, food production index has a significant and positive impact on poverty reduction [16,17].…”

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Long-Term Forecasting of Crop Water Requirement with BP-RVM Algorithm for Food Security and Harvest Risk Reduction

Syaharuddin¹,

Fatmawati²,

Suprajitno³

2023

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Cropping pattern planning is important to avoid crop failure. Meanwhile, cropping patterns are affected by climate change, which is constantly shifting and erratic. Mistakes in determining the planting schedule will affect the risk of crop failure. Hence, climate forecast using long-term hydro-climatological data must be conducted as cropping patterns are mapped for a multi-year period. Data was collected from the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency in Lombok Island. This paper discusses the combination of backpropagation and relevance vector machine with RBF kernel. We utilized BP-RVM architecture with three hidden layers to improve the performance of the network. This combination is utilized because of the BP algorithm's ability to simplify data pattern recognition and RVM to speed up and reduce the number of iterations for each data training-testing process. The evapotranspiration of each crop was then calculated using the FAO24 Blaney-Criddle method. Based on the forecasting, the average MAPE was below 20%, which indicates "good forecasting". The evapotranspiration values of CGPRT and horticultural crops were almost the same with an average of 2.79 mm/day and 2.78 mm/day. These values are lower than the evapotranspiration values of tobacco and rice. Finally, based on the calculation of each crop's water requirement throughout the year, it was recommended to start the first planting season at the end of October. The results of this study can be recommended to the government to apply the BP-RVM algorithm in forecasting hydro-climatological data and optimizing cropping patterns to avoid crop failure and maintain the stability of national food security.

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Long-Term Forecasting of Crop Water Requirement with BP-RVM Algorithm for Food Security and Harvest Risk Reduction

Syaharuddin¹,

Fatmawati²,

Suprajitno³

2023

IJSSE

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“…These geographically focused agropoles agglomerate activities that produce outputs meant to enhance performance within the community, particularly economic performance (Sibbons and Boudeville, 1967;Ivarah, 2003). Brebbia et al (2012) suggest that the function of Agropoles is to maximize the economic attributes of a particular center, emphasizing some special feature of place to encourage the growth-inducing nature of the geographic context. For example, in Brebbia et al's (2012) study the regional agropole emphasized agricultural production similar to our study.…”

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Cooperative Development: Sustainability Agricultural Planning Viewed Through Cooperative Equilibrium Management Theory in Togo, Africa

Berge

Bokoumbo

Johnson³

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Cooperative economics looks at market failures as areas for development. The cooperative development process, however, requires member engagement or cohesion in the process according to the Cooperative Management Equilibrium Theory. This cohesion requires an awareness and understanding by the cooperative members of the market failure to develop the capacity to address the failure. This article looks at the effects of government agricultural programs on economic, environmental and social sustainability. The questions we ask is how does a focus on economic development push against social and environmental sustainability within the agricultural sector in Togo? Does member cohesion within a cooperative represent a form of Polanyian double movement through social and environmental cohesion? The current development models utilize what Sen refers to as an austere mode of development which forgoes social or environmental considering them luxuries. Does the focus of economic development build capacity only for economic performance within the Togo agricultural sector at the expense of social and environmental sustainability? Utilizing Deep Participatory Indicator Approach (DPIB) approach this paper examines the economic, environmental and social indicators within two prefectures in the Plateaux Region of Togo. Indicators were separated to show the differences between individual or cooperative producers. As cooperatives it was anticipated that a greater emphasis on social and environmental sustainability would be created through cohesive social action. This study found that the emphasis on economic development included in government programs built development capacity within cooperatives emphasizing their cooperative market cohesion.

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“…However, Basorun and Fasakin (2012) reported that there is an increase on rice consumption in Asia and Africa. The authors further reported that in many countries of Africa, rice constitutes a major part of the diet (Basorun and Fasakin, 2012). Report by Luzi-Kihupi et al (2009) show that importance of rice in Tanzania is increasing with its consumption estimated to be 232.7 kg per year per person.…”

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Rice insect pest management in selected rice irrigation schemes in Morogoro Region, Tanzania

Mdangi¹,

Muhamba²,

Massawe³

et al. 2019

Afr. J. Agric. Res.

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This study was conducted in five randomly selected rice schemes in Morogoro region to obtain information on farmers' knowledge, attitude and practice in respect to management strategies undertaken for controlling insect pests both in rice fields and stores as an aid to reduce crop loss. A total of 150 farmers were randomly selected from 5 villages (30 respondents per village) and interviewed using semi structured questionnaires. Each village represented only one rice scheme. The study reveals that 61.3% of farmers cultivate rice under 0.5 to 1 acres showing that the crop is grown largely by small scale farmers. About 94.4% of farmers reported to have faced insect pest problems in rice fields with no farmer reported damage in store. It was reported that 82% of farmers control insect pests in their rice field when they notice their presence. Most of farmers (84%) used synthetic insecticides where some of them do nothing and others use non-chemical method. However, among those farmers who use pesticides, majority (83%) of them reported that they have never attained any training on the proper handling and application of chemicals suggesting a need for trainings to farmers on how to handle pesticides.

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Food security in nigeria: a development framework for strengthening igbemo-ekiti as a regional agropole

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Long-Term Forecasting of Crop Water Requirement with BP-RVM Algorithm for Food Security and Harvest Risk Reduction

Long-Term Forecasting of Crop Water Requirement with BP-RVM Algorithm for Food Security and Harvest Risk Reduction

Cooperative Development: Sustainability Agricultural Planning Viewed Through Cooperative Equilibrium Management Theory in Togo, Africa

Rice insect pest management in selected rice irrigation schemes in Morogoro Region, Tanzania

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