Implementing Agency:
Department For International Development (WNAD)

Project Code: 048-500-004	Start Date: 07-Jun-88	End Date: No End Date
Commitment: £18 656	Status: Completed	Type of Funding: Bilateral - TC

Project Objectives:
This profile of the agricultural potential of Nigeria was prepared by the Land Resources Department of NRI at the request of DFID's West and North Africa and Mediterranean Department, to provide a frame of reference for assessing existing and possible future aid strategies in the natural resources sector. The profile is the product of a rapid desk study involving the use of available reports and maps together with satellite imagery. Acknowledgement is due to a variety of organisations, commercial consultants and DFID staff. The country has been divided into eight Land Resource Zones, six representing latitudinal divisions of the low-relief land surface in accordance with gradual climate and vegetation changes, and two separating areas of greater elevation rising to over 1,000m above sea level. The main river system of the Niger and Benue roughly separates the Hausa north from the Yoruba west and the Ibo east.

Intended Outputs:
Report