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Pesticide Use in the Sub-humid Zones of Nigeria: Implications for Conservation of Aquatic Resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Iheanyi G. Mbagwu  and
Edet O. Ita
Iheanyi G. Mbagwu
Affiliation:
Fisheries Ecologist and Assistant Director of Research, National Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research, PMB 6006, New Bussa, Niger State, Nigeria.
Edet O. Ita
Affiliation:
Fisheries Ecologist and Assistant Director of Research, National Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research, PMB 6006, New Bussa, Niger State, Nigeria.
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Recently, intensification of both rain-fed and dry-season irrigated agriculture has necessitated widespread use of pesticides in the extensive sub-humid zones of Nigeria. In this region is located over 80% of Nigeria's existing surface area of reservoirs in the country. The majority of these reservoirs were built artificially for a multiplicity of uses among which fisheries and Nature conservation ranked very high.—

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1994 , pp. 214 - 219
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1994

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