AFP, Kano :
Hamisu Haruna and his men are bent over, turning the earth under a relentless sun. The work is hard in this impoverished part of northern Nigeria but the harvest will be good.
“In the last two years my yield has jumped to 35 bags of rice against the 20 I was getting in previous years,” Haruna, who is in his 40s with craggy features and a wooden hoe over his shoulder.
“Rice farming has greatly improved. I have had better yield and better price in the market,” he told AFP at his farm at Dawakin Tofa, on the outskirts of Kano.
Rising rice production is one of the few positives of Nigeria’s recession, which is the west African country’s worst in 25 years.
Hamisu Haruna and his men are bent over, turning the earth under a relentless sun. The work is hard in this impoverished part of northern Nigeria but the harvest will be good.
“In the last two years my yield has jumped to 35 bags of rice against the 20 I was getting in previous years,” Haruna, who is in his 40s with craggy features and a wooden hoe over his shoulder.
“Rice farming has greatly improved. I have had better yield and better price in the market,” he told AFP at his farm at Dawakin Tofa, on the outskirts of Kano.
Rising rice production is one of the few positives of Nigeria’s recession, which is the west African country’s worst in 25 years.
