An Analysis of Rainfall Variability in North-Eastern Nigeria 1984-2013

Over the years the issue of water availability is the critical factor for sustaining crop productivity in rain fed agriculture. Rainfall variability from season to season greatly affects soil water availability to crops, and thus pose crop production at risk. As such the issue of rainfall variability has for long been of much concern to research workers in different parts of the world, but especially in rainfall-stress region like the sub Saharan Africa. So it is against this background that this work has been conducted to assess the characteristics trend to rainfall variability in the northeast region of Nigeria, and provide with the estimation of coefficient of variability for the period of 2013 to 2023 for the determination of reliability of annual rainfall in the region, so as to proffer adaptation strategies to the immediate communities.

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Mr. Yahaya Ibrahim was born on the early 80s, Obtained a Bachelor of Technology in MAUTECH, Yola with 2nd Class upper Division as a Best graduate from the department of Geography in 2011, MSc physical Geography from BUK (Kano)in 2016. also a member of ANG, NAGS and a lecturer department of Geography Gombe State University, Gombe. Happily married.