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Nigeria: Why wheat farmers suffered low harvest in Kano, Jigawa

Wheat
Nigeria
Publicado 28 de may. de 2023

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Wheat farmers in Kano and Jigawa states are lamenting over low yield from the 2022/2023 farming season, which has seriously affected their profits and tampered with the prospect of the next season. They said majority of them didn’t get up to 50 per cent of what they got in last year’s farming. The farmers are also lamenting the skyrocketing cost of farm inputs, saying that during the planting period, a 50kg of wheat seed was sold as high as N80,000, which posed a great challenge.

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They further said that some of them could not even recover what they invested in their farms. They, however, said they hoped to recover and make profit. A wheat farmer from Karfi town of Kura Local Government Area in Kano State, Bello Muhammad said, “In our village, only four of us out of over 1,000 farmers got more than 100 sacks of wheat this season. This is unlike before when we used to have 900 people getting over 120 sacks in three to four hectares of farmland. Some people ended up with 10 to 20 sacks in a place where they were supposed to get over 100.” Another farmer from Hadejia Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Usaini Umar, said majority of farmers in Chiromawa village and the entire axis of the wheat area ended up losing. Only few of them counted profit. Umar said he got 22 sacks in his farm last year, but this time around, he ended with only four. “I struggle very hard to get inputs, especially this year that we didn’t get any subsidy. I planted wheat and followed ...
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