Ideato South
| Ideato South LGA | |
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| LGA | |
 Ideato South LGA
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| Coordinates: 5°51′N 7°6′E / 5.850°N 7.100°ECoordinates: 5°51′N 7°6′E / 5.850°N 7.100°E | |
| Country |
 Nigeria
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| State | Imo State |
| Area | |
| • Total | 88 km2 (34 sq mi) |
| Population (2006 census) | |
| • Total | 159,879 |
| Time zone | WAT (UTC+1) |
| 3-digit postal code prefix | 475 |
Ideato South is a Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Dikenafai, the source of Orashi River. Ideato South has an area of 88 km² and a population of 159,879 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 475.
There are twenty-three (23) autonomous communities in Ideato-South LGA. These are Nneato Ogwugwu, Isiekenesi, Dikenafai, Dimagu, Okohia and Umuaghobe autonomous communities. Others are Awalla, Umuakam, Umuago, Umuobom Umuezedike Duruahurunwa, Umuchoke, Umumaisiaku, Amanator, Umueshi, Ntueke, Obioha, Umuchima, Ugbelle, Umulewe and Ogwume, Umuezealla-Ogboko and Ogboko autonomous community
Orashi River takes off from Ezeama community in Dikenafai. Described as a lifeline to Ideato South communities, Orashi stream serves as an all purpose river for drinking, washing and many other purposes to communities such as Umulewe, Umuezealla-Ogboko, Umuchima and Ntueke.
Ideato South, like many other areas of Orlu senatorial zone, has faced erosion problems such as Umueshi, Umuezealla-Ogboko gully erosion site. An intervention programme was kicked-off. Umueshi Gully Erosion intervention site has Amanato and Ntueke as neighbouring (watershed contributor) communities. Whilst appealing for support in September 2000, the chairman of the Local Government area, Chief Ethelbert Okwaranya said there were 26 erosion sites which claimed many lives and rendered thousands of people homeless. Other communities in the area suffering this problem includes Umuojisi.
The Ideato-South depends mainly on agriculture and commerce and the main occupation of the people is farming and trading. Most of their cash crops are taken to the market depending on the market that falls when they intend to sell their farm produce (Eke,Orie, Afo and Nkwo). Their cash crops include oil palm, raffia palm, groundnut, melon, cotton, cocoa, rubber, maize, etc. Food crops such as yam, cassava; cocoyam, breadfruit, and three-leaf yam are also produced in large quantities. The location of this L.G.A within the tropical rainforest gives it the ecological basis for production of a wide range of tropical agriculture crops with widespread potentialities for industrial convention.
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