Taraba coffee farmers in Nigeria struggle amid funding challenges

Coffee is one crop that has suffered total neglect by both federal and state governments despite the country having potentials for commercial production. Despite the neglect, some smallholder farmers who still have passion for the cash crop still make money from coffee as the case in Sardauna Local Government Area of Taraba State indicates. Findings by Daily Trust on Sunday revealed that there are many small- scale coffee farmers in Kusugu, kakara, Nguroje, Yarimaro, Yelwa and Likitaba, among other towns in Sardauna. Most of the farmers, it was gathered, produce few bags of coffee beans because they lack money to set up big farms. Suleiman Kakara, one of the small coffee farmers, told our coorespondent that coffee farming required big capital. He said apart from land, a farmer would need money to buy seedlings, fertiliser, pest control chemical and water pumping machines. What farmers should know about flood-tolerant rice variety Again, Kano tomato farms under pest attack He said ...