Reports have it that over 78,000 farmers have abandoned their farmlands in Borno, Katsina, Taraba, Plateau and other states in the north.
This is due to the continuous menace of Boko Haram terrorists, bandits and herdsmen.
The Guardian reports that About 56,000 Internally Displaced Households (IDH) farmers from 28 communities in Borno State have lost no less than 504,000 metric tonnes of food since 2015.
According to the reports, these farmers cultivate about 95,000 metric tonnes of crops yearly. The farmers, before they abandoned their farmlands engaged in wet and dry season farming and fishing.
They also cultivated no less than 56,000 hectares of land and got an average of 1.5 metric tonnes of grains per hectare.
The total number of farmers in 56,000 displaced Borno households is about 1.5 million people, currently taking refuge at 24 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps.
Some of the camps are in Monguno, Damboa, Gwoza, Pulka, Dikwa and Gambouru, a border community with Cameroon, Bakassi, Gubio and Dalori in Maiduguri metropolis, with IDPs coming from the affected 18 local government areas of the state.
