Farmers Awareness and Applicability of Renewable Energy in Ikom Education Zone,Cross River State, Nigeria.

Introduction:Global demand for electricity by farmers has increased steadily overtime with Nations striving to meet the demand in order to achieve the food need of the teaming population.However, Nigeria is abysmally struggling to meet the increasing demand with the meager per capita electricity consumption of 151Kwh (Owebor et al, 2021) which is lower than the average per capita electricity demand of 180kwh in sub-Saharan Africa.(Excluding South Africa).To achieve an average electricity consumption, there is need for sustainable energy usage which implies the adoption of renewable energy.Renewable energy according to the United Nations (2025) is energy derived from natural sources that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed.Sunlight and wind, for example, are such sources that are constantly being replenished.Renewable energy sources are plentiful and all around us while fossil fuels such as, coal, oil and gas are non-renewable resources that take hundreds of millions of years to form.Fossil fuels, when burned to produce energy, causes harmful greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide.