Caught in the web: Killer herdsmen, floods overrun farms, destroy yields, insurance firms fail to lift hapless farmers The Punch
Published 15 July 2021
With only about five per cent of agricultural crops in Nigeria insured, operators see this as a threat to food security, OKECHUKWU NNODIM writes
The insurance of crops in Nigeria’s agricultural sector is low as most farmers across the country shy away from insuring their crops and produce.
Agro-insurers, government officials as well as farmers believe that it is vital to insure crops, particularly to forestall the devastating impact of adverse weather on crop production.
Operators in the sector see the about five per cent level of agriculture insurance in Nigeria as another potential threat to food security nationwide.
Amotekun probes herdsmen’s destruction of 235-hectare Ekiti maize farm
Abiodun Nejo, Ado-Ekiti
The Maize Growers Processing Marketer Association of Nigeria on Tuesday accused some herdsmen of grazing their cattle indiscriminately, thereby destroying a multi-million naira maize farm alongAdo-Ijan Road in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.
MAGPAMAN Secretary in Ekiti, Mr Tope Emmanuel, lamented that the farmers sourced N60.8m from the Central Bank of Nigeria to cultivate the maize farms on about 235 hectares, adding that the projected profit was N410m.
Emmanuel, who alleged that the herders had been terrorising the farmers said, “They invaded the farm at night with weapons and fed their cows with our plant. All efforts to stop them were rebuffed.
Farmers lament as Fulani herdsmen destroy multi-million maize farm in Ekiti
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By Rotimi Ojomoyela
Some suspected Fulani herdsmen have destroyed a multi-million naira maize farm belonging to members of the Maize Growers Processing Marketer Association of Nigeria (MAGPAMAN) in Ekiti state.
The farm covering about 235 hectares of land is at the state forest reserve in Aduloju farm stead located along Ado-Ijan road in Ado local government area of the state.
Speaking with newsmen on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, the state secretary of the association, Mr Tope Emmanuel said the herders had been terrorising the farmers in the last one week leading to the destruction of the maize farm.
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The Ekiti State government has disclosed that it was investigating the report of the farm invasion by suspected herdsmen in Aduloju farmstead located along Ado-Ijan road in the state capital.
The secretary of Maize Growers Processing Marketer Association of Nigeria (MAGPAMAN) in the state, Mr Tope Emmanuel told journalists on Tuesday that herdsmen invaded their farm covering 235 hectares of land and destroyed multi-million naira maize.
The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Akin Omole in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital sympathized with the 160 affected farmers, saying everything possible would be done to address the situation.
Ekiti maize farmers lament destruction of farms by herdsmen
Mr Emmanuel explained that the herders stormed the farms at night with dangerous weapons to feed their cows and all efforts to stop them were rebuffed. 2 min read
The Maize Growers Processing Marketer Association of Nigeria (MAGPAMAN) in Ekiti State has said that its members’ farms worth N10million have been destroyed by suspected herdsmen in the state.
The association, speaking to journalists on Tuesday in Ado Ekiti, said the maize farms, spanning over 235 hectares of land, located in the forest reserve in Aduloju, along Ado-Ijan road, in Ado Local Government Area, were completely grazed and destroyed.