Hunger looms as farmers abandon farmlands
Farmers in Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area, LGA, of Kaduna State have abandoned their farmlands over the resurgence of terrorism and other criminal acts in the rural communities. Speaking to Vanguard's correspondent yesterday , a traditional title holder at Dan Masanin Birnin-Gwari and former Managing Director of Kaduna State Media Corporation, Zubairu Abdurrauf , said less than 20 percent of farmlands in the Local Government Area were being attended to as the local farmers had run away for their lives, leaving the terrorists to hold sway. According to him," Well the resurgence of armed banditry, kidnappings and burning of villages and towns by the terrorists in Birnin-Gwari Local Government as a whole is sending a signal of famine in our area. "This is because as it is now, most of the farming communities cannot access their farms. If last year out of 100 percent of arable land that the farmers were able to only cultivate about 45 percent, I doubt if this planting s...