Year 2022 began very promising for Nigerian farmers and from the onset rains started in early April, heralding a hope of bountiful harvest.
However its was a year that will go down in history as a most traumatic one for many farmers as their hopes were dashed midway and between August and October. While they were preparing for harvest, the year suddenly turned the “year of the locust” where floods came, wrecked havoc and destroyed farmlands worth billions of Nigeria.
According to the president of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), the 2022 floods remain the worst Nigeria experienced in the last 10 years. Over 500,000 hectares of farmlands where estimated the be destroyed.
By October 2022, most farmers expressed pains and agony as their investments and livelihoods had varnished within days with little or no support from the government.
