Bauchi farmers lament low rainfall

FARMERS in Bauchi Statehave lamented the dry spell being experienced in the state, which has resulted in the drying up of their crops.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that for the past few weeks, rain had not fallen in most parts of the state.

Some of the farmers, who spoke to NAN, said they spent huge resources on payment of labour, purchase of seeds and fertilizer used in planting the crops, adding that they were not financially buoyant to repeat same.

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A peasant farmer, Malam Aliyu Hamman, who said he spent about N30,000, stated that “We rushed to plant crops to avoid a repeat of what happened last year, when the rain stopped abruptly without crops maturing, making us to incur losses.

“Now, we seem to be too early and the consequence is almost same as we may have to repeat planting and incur losses again,” he lamented.

Other farmers who narrated the same experience are Mohammed Yunus, Ali Balarabe, MamamnKolo and Bashir Inuwa, who said they had been having sleepless nights over the situation.

Meanwhile, an Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Idris, has called for fervent prayers for rain in the state.