Farmers say they have abandoned their fields for fear of being kidnapped or killed by rampaging criminals.
Of several factors that have affected Nigeria’s food production lately, widespread attacks on farms by herders and other criminals have been perhaps the most devastating, experts say. It has caused the prices of all classes of food to increase at an unprecedented scale.Mr Udeala is one of several farmers in the federal capital territory whose livelihood has come under threat from grazing activities, putting them in perpetual clashes with herders.
Asked if he can take this reporter to the farm he abandoned at Kuje, he said our reporter must sign a written agreement before he will embark on such a trip if anything happens on the way. Mr Isaac-Taiwo lamented that farmers do not have access to any form of relief materials that could aid their activities towards making them the best.
“We are asking our farmers to buy cement bags, fill them with topsoil, irrigate and plant within their compounds, and a lot of them are putting this into practice already,” he told PREMIUM TIMES.
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