Devastating Effect of Flooding in Nigeria SUMMARY Floods are among the most devastating natural disasters in the world‚ claiming more lives and causing more property damage than any other natural phenomena. In Nigeria‚ though not leading in terms of claiming lives‚ flood affects and displaces more people than any other disaster; it also causes more damage to properties. At least 20 per cent of the population is at risk from one form of flooding or another. In Nigeria‚ flood disaster has been perilous
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CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION RESEARCH UNIT Date : 2nd Quarter‚ 2009 From : Agriculture Desk Subject : Boosting Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria. Introduction: Agricultural sector was the mainstay of the Nigerian economy before independence‚ 75% of the Nigerian workforce was engaged in agriculture and immediately after it‚ until the oil boom of the 1970s. In the 1970s‚ agriculture provided the needed food for the population as well as serving as a major foreign exchange earner
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used to generate electricity. By the late 1920’s farms across the US were using small wind turbines to generate electricity for farmhouses‚ irrigation and other reasons since the electrical grid was slow in reaching many locations. In 1927 the brothers Joe Jacobs and Marcellus Jacobs opened a factory‚ Jacobs Wind in Minneapolis to produce wind turbine generators for farm use. These would typically be used for lighting or battery charging‚ on farms out of reach of central-station electricity and distribution
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cities until his death in 1996. His mother’s family‚ however‚ came from quiet rural parts of the country‚ and this background is reflected in ‘Summer Farm’.The poem begins with some simple descriptions of what he sees‚ before concluding with the idea that by lying in the grass and looking at the farm he becomes aware of the many generations and many farms that have preceded this one – that he is “in the centre”‚ but at the same time only part of a hugely long sequence of people and places – a thought
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Farm Machinery(http://www.india.gov.in/citizen/agriculture/index.php?id=58) The manufacture of agricultural machinery in India is quite multifaceted and comprises village artisans‚ tiny units‚ small-scale industries‚ State agro-industrial development corporations and organized tractor‚ engine and processing equipment industries. The Bureau of Indian Standards (External website that opens in a new window) (BIS) ensures that manufacture and marketing of agricultural and industrial products are of a
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Animal Farm In the story‚ Animal Farm‚ the animals have taken over Manor Farm and have taken matters into their own hands. Naturally‚ there has to be a leader of some sort and since the old leader got run off; it is time for Napoleon to become the leader of Animals Farm. Of course not all animals are created equal‚ even if it does say that in the last commandment. There has to be different classes‚ kind of like a pyramid. Usually the leader sits on the top of the pyramid and then there is a middle
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Animal Farm: Critical Essay In the era of the Russian Revolution George Orwell wrote the fable known as “Animal Farm” to highlight the events and outcome of the revolution. Orwell symbolises iconic figures during the revolution through the use of farm animals such as pigs‚ cows and donkeys. Throughout the novel Orwell takes us through the story of the animals and how they deal with overtaking the human race‚ food shortages‚ deaths and have to tolerate with the horrors of having a tyrannical leader
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Fear Have you ever been so afraid of something that you felt too scared to fight back? That happens to be the case for the animals in the novel Animal Farm. Old Major‚ an old well regarded boar‚ tells them of a dream he has in which all animals live together with no human beings to oppress or control them. He tells the animals that they must work toward such a paradise through rebellion. The animals manage to defeat the farmer‚ Mr. Jones‚ in a battle‚ running him off the land. Three
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clear by his use of the attack dogs to expel Snowball from the farm. Despite Napoleon’s clearly bullying tactics‚ Orwell’s text doesn’t allow us to perceive Snowball as a preferable alternative. Snowball does nothing to prevent the consolidation of power in the hands of the pigs‚ nor does he stop the unequal distribution of goods in the pigs’ favor—he may even‚ in fact‚ be complicit in it early on. Furthermore‚ the ideals of Animal Farm—like Orwell’s ideal version of socialism—are rooted in democracy
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Harvest Farm Foods‚ Inc. is a company that has been around for 127 years and provides canned and frozen food to the country. In late 2008‚ there was a stockholders revolt that forced the then president of the company to resign. The new president‚ Patrick Webb has been trying to figure out why the company hasn’t grown or increased its profits like its competitors. There are some strengths that the company should improve on‚ and some threats the company should destroy all together‚ as seen below
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