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ASSESSMENT OF WATER BALANCE IN FOOD TRADE IN THE WATER-SCARCE REGIONS OF NIGERIA |
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| Creator | Gozen Elkiran |
| Title | ASSESSMENT OF WATER BALANCE IN FOOD TRADE IN THE WATER-SCARCE REGIONS OF NIGERIA |
| Contributor | Jazuli Abdullahi |
| Publisher | TUENGR Group |
| Publication Year | 2562 |
| Journal Title | International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies |
| Journal Vol. | 10 |
| Journal No. | 3 |
| Page no. | 299-308 |
| Keyword | Food trade, Crop productions, Water footprint, Water balance, Virtual water, CROPWAT, Imports and exports. |
| URL Website | http://tuengr.com |
| Website title | International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies |
| ISSN | 2228-9860 |
| Abstract | Rapid growth in the world population leads to increase demand for water and hence water scarcity rises. Water is said to be virtually transported when the produced food are transferred from the point of its production to the point of consumption. Hence, this research was aimed at determining the volume of virtual water required to produce 25 different crops in the most water-scarce region of Nigeria for the year 2013. In the meantime, the virtual water imports and exports, the volume of virtual water produced, water balance, and water footprint, contributions of green, blue, and grey water for crop productions, imports costs, exports income and productions value of the selected crops were distinguished. CROPWAT software was used in conducting this research. The result showed that in the selected six states of the water-scarce region, the sum of the volumes of virtual water produced of the crops selected was approximately 34.7 Gm3/yr., virtual water imports volume was 8.3 Gm3/yr., virtual water exports volume was 26.5 Mm3/yr., water balance was 8.3 Gm3/yr. and water footprint was 43 Gm3/yr. Total production value was $2.5 billion, import cost $763.5 million and export income $1.1 million. The most suitable state to grow crops in the water-scarce region of Nigeria is Zamfara as it has more percentage of green water used than others, which can, therefore, reduce cost of production and scarcity of water. |
