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Senior Agronomist (Farm Innovation Nig.) Weed Scientist (Not that kind of weed )🀭, Agricultural Consultant
Jan 29, 2021 β€’ 14 tweets β€’ 6 min read
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The "food basket of the nation” has indeed become empty. Those who have been around long enough will not agree any less. Those who were there in 80s and 90s.
So over the holidays I had a course to visit some rural areas around Benue ImageImage β€œthe food basket of the nation”. As we drove by, I could see un-nourished stands of Sorghum crop left after harvest of probably Soybeans or Yams. What caught my attention was the dwarf nature of the Sorghum crops due to lack of nutrients and the sparse population of the stands. Image