Nigeria: Hunger Looms, As Potato Disease Blights Crop, Threatens Value Chain in Plateau
Published on: Friday 26 August 2022
THE production of Irish Potato, a staple food in the country, has run into trouble with a strange disease that now ravages the crop and threatens to render farmers jobless and trigger hunger and starvation in the process. Farmers in the state are worried because potato cultivated in Plateau State has been used for local consumption an export before the attack was reported in the state this year.
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