Daily Post Nigeria
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Ahead of the next planting season, the Ekiti State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), has raised the alarm that there might be shortage of food in the State with the rate at which fire has been ravaging food and cash crops across the 16 local government areas of the state.
The Chairman of the agency, Capt Sunday Adebomi (rtd), said the recent fire incident in the state had affected about nine local governments and rendered about 2400 farmers jobless, which he described as a bad omen for food production and supply.
Adebomi raised the fear on Monday while inspecting some cocoa, oil palm as well as food and cash crop plantations destroyed by inferno in Omuo and Omu, in Ekiti East and Oye Local Government Areas of the state respectively.