“The Irish potatoes, which ought to be supervised and even harvested, are also perishing.”
: All the farmers in the state have been locked-up. This is the sixth week they have not been going to their farms. Vegetable that is supposed to be harvested now has continued to perish.
“Plateau and Federal Governments have continued to announce that farmers should go to their farms, unfortunately, you don’t farm without chemical and fertilizers, which are supposed to be sourced for earlier before the farming season proper. There is intra-local government restriction in the state and so you can’t travel from the rural areas to the urban areas to look for chemical and organic fertilizers.
A prominent farmer in the state, Musa Gabriel, said if the situation continues like this, most Nigerians, particularly the Plateau citizens, will die of ‘hunger pandemic’ and not of Coronavirus because prices of food and other agro commodities will be too high that the rich might not afford to buy. A renowned farmer in Zaki-Biam, Ukum Local Government Area of the state, Mr. Gbertile Ajoko said he lost up to 10,000 tubers of yams that got rotten within the period.
Nakyur urged well to do individuals in the state to use the opportunity of the glut to set up cottage fruits juice industries in the state, to complement external buyers to boost the state’s economy.
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