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Suitability Mapping Of Sesame Cultivation In Nigeria, Charles Alegbe

Charles Alegbe

Nigeria as a microcosm of the sub-Saharan Africa has agriculture as her mainstay which provides employment and source of livelihood for the increasing population. Sesame also known as beniseed, which is a very sensitive cash-crop to environmental factors such as rainfall, temperature and soil types; is not an exception as it has become one of the foreign exchange earners for Nigeria. The objective of this project is to use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as a decision making tools to solving the spatial problems of sesame suitability mapping in Nigeria. Basic GIS operations ranging from spatial to aspatial search, reclassification and …