In 1990, 82 million hectares out of Nigeria's total land area of about 91 million hectares were found to be arable. 42 percent of the cultivable area was farmed. Much of this land was farmed under the bush fallow system, whereby land is left idle for a period of time to allow natural regeneration of soil fertility.
Report Abuse. 1  His or her name. â¥Instantkarmaâ¥â« Â· 10 years ago. 2  I believe a lover of rain is a pluviophile. I love thunderstorms too, but don't have a word for that, except dangerous. 3  There's no term for it. I love thunderstorms!  Pulviophilia. Mercedez Â· 1 month ago.
Fresh rain scent has been bottled in air fresheners, laundry detergents, and candles for years. This amazing aroma even has a proper name: petrichor. It was first used by Isabel Joy Bear and R. G. Thomas in a paper published in Nature in 1964, as a means to describe how rain makes the ground smell after a drought.