HADEJIA JAMA’ARE RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, PMB 3168, KANO
BRIEF ON ACTIVITIES
Prior to the discovery of oil, the mainstay of the Nigerian economy was agriculture. Cash and food crops were produced which sustained the population and provided the nation with foreign exchange to meet its import bills.
The varied climate and rainfall pattern form the savannah lands to the rain forests on the Atlantic Coast provided conditions for production of a variety of crops and rearing of livestock. The population in that period of time was a manageable figure of 40-50 million people. The entire agricultural activity was dependent on rain-fed agriculture. Two decades after that era, three phenomena were experienced:-