Ado Musa, the head of Warwade village, in Dutse Local Local Government Council of Jigawa State, has appealed to government to come to the aid of farmers who lost rice produce of over ₦20 million as a result of flooding in the area.
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday, Mr. Musa said over 200 farms were destroyed when a dam in the area burst its banks as a result of torrential rainfall.
“All the rice we planted in over 200 farms at the bank of the dam was destroyed because the dam was overfilled with water.
“We lost rice of over N20 million because we planted on north, south, east and west sides of the dam and the water has submerged it all, and the fishes in dam were feeding on the rice day in day out,” he said.
The Dangote Group announced in July that it had acquired 16,000 hectares of land in Jigawa (Kafin-Hausa Local Government Area) mainly for commercial rice production.