Improvement of Meteorological Services for Food Security in the Drylands of Nigeria

Well-coordinated efforts are being made in dishing out meteorological services by the NigerianMeteorological Agency to ensure the delivery of timely, accurate and quality weather information for the developmentof agricultural activities in the drylands of Nigeria for sustainable food security. This is through the densification ofthe observations networks, acquisition of the relevant and latest weather instruments and improvement in weatherequipment and training of technical data capturing system, data delivery system, calibration of equipment, installation,routine maintenance of the equipment and training and retraining of staff .This work is aimed at giving an insight tothe efforts being made by NIMET towards the issuance of accurate weather information for agricultural development.The information contained in Seasonal Rainfall Prediction (SRP), 2019 and 2020 is given consideration in this studyespecially as it relates to agriculture for food security in the drylands of Nigeria.