Kachia, a local government headquarters in the southern part of Kaduna State in northern Nigeria, is a centre of the ginger trade. Middlemen and traders often arrived in their vehicles to buy the root crop from peasant farmers in the area before a massive shock disrupted the trade in 2023.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how ginger farmers in Kachia and other parts of Kaduna lost an estimated N12 billion to a fungal disease epidemic that destroyed their ginger crops.
The federal government,…
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