Regions were already facing a bleak situation as a result of earlier drought, the pandemic and and fallout from the Ukraine war
Regions were already facing a bleak situation as a result of earlier drought, the pandemic and fallout from the Ukraine warSouloukna Mourga, 50, who has been a farmer for more than 35 years and lost two hectares of cotton and one of millet due to flooding, plods through his submerged red millet field in Dana, Cameroon on October 25, 2022. Picture: REUTERS/DESIRE DANGA ESSIGUE
The floods have destroyed the season’s harvest, while almost 1-million hectares of farmland across the region remain under water, and with soil nutrients being washed away an even worse crop is likely next season. About 300km north of Dana, on the floodplain between the Logone and Chari rivers in Chad, it took Bernadette Handing, 37, two hours in a canoe to reach her flooded millet farm in Kournari, south of the Chadian capital,“What I was able to save from the farm cannot support our family for a month. What is certain, we will die of hunger in winter,” she said.
“It is an unprecedented situation,” Ollo said. “This is a perfect storm of factors all playing and leading us towards a catastrophe, a major crisis.” Edwin Chigozie Uche, president of Nigeria’s Maize Growers and Processors Association said preliminary reports show as much as 30% of the maize crop in the two regions could have been lost to floods, warning of possible food shortages.
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