It was a bright and breezy Monday morning in September at Wuro Chekke – an agrarian community in the north-east of Nigeria – where Jamila Muhammed, draped in a navy-blue hijab, narrated how she lost all her farm produce to recent floods that swept across the region. As a result, she and her four children are now struggling to survive and she is looking ahead with despair at the oncoming dry season.
“We never expected the flood this year. Just like last year, it destroyed all our rice fields and submerged our houses,” Ms Muhammed said, pointing towards her submerged farm.
“I’ve lost all my crops, I couldn’t get a cup of grain from my farm. The government should kindly help us,” she added.
Ms Muhammed is not alone. The lingering effects of the flood disaster that submerged farmlands in the first weeks of August and September haunt farmers across Nigeria.
Farmers in the Adamawa and Nasarawa states in September recounted to our correspondent how they…