Ahead of this year’s planting season, Esonu Udeala borrowed N90,000 to rent a hectare of land for his orange-fleshed sweet potatoes farm in Abuja. But he now doubts the venture due to lingering insecurity that has extended to the Nigerian capital, delayed rainfall and inflation driven by recent government policies.
Mr Udeala described the past year as the most “traumatic” for small-scale farmers in Nigeria and linked the hardship to the lack of ‘realistic assistance’ from…
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