'All the benefits one should get from the sale of the crops are exhausted on transportation. Only bikes can get into this area and sadly they don't have the same capacity as a motor car and they charge higher. I have a car at home but it will break down on this road if I bring it.
"All the benefits one should get from the sale of the crops are exhausted on transportation. Only bikes can get into this area and sadly they don't have the same capacity as a motor car and they charge higher. I have a car at home but it will break down on this road if I bring it.
“Due to the poor road conditions, the crops on our farms often go to waste before we can transport them. As farmers, we take out loans to invest in our farming ventures, but unfortunately, nearly half of our harvests spoil due to the difficulty in transporting them to market. It’s a situation where there’s no gain, only loss,” Olaiya said with agony.
“All the benefits one should get from the sale of the crops are exhausted on transportation. Only bikes can get into this area and sadly they don’t have the same capacity as a motor car and they charge higher. I have a car at home but it will break down on this road if I bring it,” he said. While Mr Atagba was harvesting groundnuts in his farm and listening to songs in his dialect, he recalled an incident when a car somersaulted due to its inability to navigate the deteriorated road. Additionally, he mentioned that motorbikes now charge ten times their usual rates for transportation., between June and August 2023, approximately 25 million Nigerians faced a high risk of food insecurity.
This situation significantly hampers transportation, leading to frequent vehicle breakdowns. These challenges are having a detrimental impact on the local economy, and he earnestly appeals to the government for intervention to facilitate better business opportunities.“And countless times, we have visited the people in governance to express our desire.
An on-the-spot visit to the health clinic in Ijelu-Ekiti, this reporter observed that the facility was vacant, despite the presence of wards, beds, and clinical equipment. Discussing the unfinished road construction, the nurse mentioned that the engineers wanted to take a break for the December holidays, “but it appears that the Christmas break hasn’t ended even in August”.
“We have an agricultural value chain, which transportation and distribution is part of, that connectivity between the farm base and the market is very essential. Once there is a break between the connectivity to the market then it is difficult for any country to ascertain food insecurity. And once farmers find it very difficult to transport their food to the market, there is a high cost on the produce.
Abandoned construction equipment left behind by Delko Holdings Nigeria Limited in the town of Ijelu-Ekiti. Photo_ Peace Oladipo When questioned about the absence of rain earlier this year, he responded, “This project is government-funded, not private. We were only given a mobilization fee which we used for the first work and we await the rest to continue,” he said.
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