The World Soil Day (WSD) is held annually on 5 December as a means to focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and advocating for the sustainable management of soil resources.
Though, Nigeria is blessed with abundant water resource and huge arable land, the country is still faced with several challenges, firstly, in improving access to potable water, despite the rapidly increasing demand driven by high population growth, urbanization, and rising living standards resulting from economic growth, while the country’s land is threatened with degradation, among many other challenges.
