Taraba farmers may stop irrigation farming over fuel price surge 

Farmers crossed Taraba State person raised the alarm implicit rising petrol and diesel prices, informing that the improvement could unit galore of them to wantonness irrigation farming successful the coming play and worsen concerns implicit nutrient production.

The farmers said the soaring outgo of fuel, coupled with precocious prices of fertilisers, tractor hiring services and labour, had pushed accumulation expenses beyond what galore could afford, leaving them uncertain astir participating successful the adjacent irrigation season.

They expressed interest that the concern could discourage hundreds of farmers from cultivating their fields, peculiarly arsenic the prices of immoderate cultivation nutrient remained excessively debased to warrant returns connected investment.

For irrigation farmers, the situation is peculiarly pressing due to the fact that of their dependence connected petrol- and diesel-powered h2o pumps to proviso their farms with h2o during the adust season.

Speaking with our reporter, the authorities president of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), Tanko Bobbo Andami, said rising substance costs had go a large obstacle to irriga...