10/09/2025
How Tired Land, High Interest Loans Hamper Bountiful Harvest for Women Farmers
Featured | 16 seconds ago About 70 per cent of Nigerians are engaged in agriculture in one form or the other, with women and girls in the overwhelming majority of this number. However, only 10 per cent of them own the land they farm, making life difficult and uncertain. Seun Akioye met some women farmers and they shared their pains and gains Comfort Sunday rose from where she sat since the rains stopped, between two heaps of freshly harvested groundnuts; she shook off the sand under her and smiled. It was a smile of resignation, one that showed she had accepted her fate. ?The land is dead,? she said for the umpteenth time. ?If you put anything into the soil now and you are not...
