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Government Needs To Announce A State Of Emergency On Desertification & Lake Chad by dblock(m): 2:23pm On Mar 16, 2007 |
Government needs to announce a state of emergency on Desertification & Lake Chad This is a very serious issue, and it should be on the Top of the agenda of the new administration. I have no doubt that the farmers, herders and fishers in Northern and North Eastern Nigeria will rather not have their fishing and Grazing sources depleted than have a stable power supply. The situation is very bad, the fact is that the sahara is moving southwards and it is englfing Nigeria The government needs to; * Educate people about the construction of Green belts * Chanel rivers manually to strategic locations * Ensure that the areas severly affected have enough water supply * Ensure that the people of those areas have a proper diet and their diet is not affected by desertification * Chanel a river to Lake Chad to act as major water source * Commence on Majr irrigation projects * Plant more trees to enjance local transpiration * Advice farmers and educate them about proper ways to grow crops * Supply large amounts of fertilizer * Teach about the consequences of Over grazing and using primitive farming techniques * commence on interleaving large amounts of Leguminous plants in the soil which will extract Nitrogen from the air and fix it into the soil thus making the soil more fertile and less subjected to desertification * Teach about proper crop roation and purchase Solar Ovens References; http://www.freshplaza.com/2007/0312/2_sn_nigeriafarmers.html http://www.thetidenews.com/article.aspx?qrDate=03/01/2007&qrTitle=Mitigating%20climate%20change:%20Trees%20to%20the%20rescue?&qrColumn=ENVIRONMENT Lake Chad [img]http://www.grida.no/climate/vitalafrica/english/graphics/14-lakechad.jpg[/img] Fishermen used to catch large fish in the lake but they only catch little fish now Lake Chad is drying up. This is very seroius people are being directly affected by the above developments. Nigeria must not wait until it is a crisis before they act, Nigeria must act now and prevent an Humanitarian crisis |
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