GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

This study sought to investigate erosion and its implication on economic plants in Nigeria. Erosion is widely considered to be a serious threat to the long-term viability of economic plants in many parts of the world. Erosion is particularly serious in certain developing countries. Erosion requires an agent, either wind or water. The level of erosion in a given place is determined by the interaction of a number of factors. The broadest application of the term erosion embraces the general wearing down and molding of all landforms on Earth’s surface, including the weathering of rock in its original position. Erosion is a wide spread problem affecting economic plant in the Nigeria system. The watershed optimization taking into consideration the quantum of erosion for sustainable development is necessary. Erosion affects the economic plant and thereby impacting the income of the farmer. The application of economic optimization approaches has been recently started due to low efficiency of its implication on economic plant in Nigeria system. One of the recommendations made was that government should control the erosion by the use of land according to its capability and control runoff before it develops into an erosive force.

KEYWORDS: Erosion, Economic, Plants and Nigeria