Food Blockage: With No Cows in Our Bushes, We Will Produce More Food - Enugu Farmers(AFAN)

The state chapter of the All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria said that food blockade by north would not last long, adding the northern farmers depended on the South for survival.


The state Chairman of AFAN, Mr Romanus Ezeh, who spoke to one of our correspondents in Enugu, said “AFAN in Enugu State is working with both federal and the state ministries of agriculture in various ways especially in the intervention funds to add value and boost food production in the state.”

He, however, said northern farmers could not survive without supplying their produce to the South.

He said, “The blockade will not last long because farmers in the North cannot survive without marketing their produce in the South.


“It will make farmers in the East to grow those items that we don’t have down here. With no cows in our bushes, farmers will go back in full force this farming season thereby increasing more production.”




The Enugu State Government said it would ensure the state’s sufficient in food production in no distant future.


Speaking to one of our correspondents on telephone, the Commissioner of Information, Chidi Aroh, said the state under the current administration had embarked on so many programmes that encouraged citizens to go into agriculture.

He said, “Our government is not reactionary government, that is why we are ensuring that efforts are being made to be sure that rice farm in Adani is working and our rice production is at its peak.


“That’s why we are doing a lot about Ose Nsukka (yellow pepper) and our cassava production. So we are not reactionary, we are confident that’s why we are doing the (Efi Igbo) Igbo cow project. “

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