Agricultural Trends in Nigeria (1961 - 2012)

Ekaba Bisong
June 21 2015

Introduction

The application hosted on https://dvdbisong.shinyapps.io/AgricLandProject displays a barplot of agricultural trends in Nigeria from 1961 to 2012. The data was collected from the World Bank Country Database

Interacting with the Application

To interact with the application, simply select an agricultural trend from the drop-down list and the bar graph on the right will change to reflect the changes in that trend over the years from 1961 - 2012.

Some of the trends under consideration in this application are:

  • Agricultural land (sq. km)
  • Agricultural land (% of land area)
  • Arable land (hectares)
  • Arable land (hectares per person)
  • Arable land (% of land area),
  • and more …..

Application Page

Application Landing Page

Conclusion

This data product provides a visual time-series plot that can be used for analysing agricultural trends important for policy formulation, decision support and academic research.