On a vast farmland in the eastern part of Nigeria’s Benue State, Aondongu Saaku and the men he had hired for harvest stood staring at the outcome of what he had planted.
Yams not bigger than medium-sized Irish potatoes – the fruits of many months of arduous labour – lay across the expanse, each beside heaps of sand turning sterile after they had long endured arrested growth.
“How can you cultivate 32 hectares of yam farm and you will not even be able to get up to 100 tubers…
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