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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="general-sciences" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1072</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>General Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>SOIL QUALITY AND YIELD DECLINE : PERCEPTION OF FARMERS IN THE SUDAN SAVANNAH REGION OF NIGERIA&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Usman</surname><given-names>S.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Noma</surname><given-names>S. S.</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>19</day><month>10</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>7</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Assessment of farmers? perception on soil quality and crop yield decline has been carried out in the Sudan Savannah (SS) of Kebbi State Nigeria with a specific objective to provide a report on soil quality deterioration and yield decline using IPCC climate change impact report on Africa by 2020. The assessment was made using face-to-face-verbal-interview. The interview was divided into four rounds according to four questions. It is reported that the farmers are aware of climate change impact and they have considered this impact as one of the major agricultural problem that would take part in soil quality deterioration and yield decline in the SS by 2020. Generally, the fact that the climate change impact will cause yield reduction for up to 50% in Africa by 2020 remained an open debate issue for most farmers in the SS.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Soil quality</kwd><kwd> yield</kwd><kwd> farmers</kwd><kwd> climate change</kwd><kwd> savannah</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
