The Senate has decried the over N10 billion lost by ginger farmers in Southern Kaduna, Kaduna State and asked the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)
Also, the Senate mandated the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to move into Southern Kaduna and tackle the disease.
Katung said ginger has been grown in the southern part of Kaduna State since 1927 and it has steadily increased in its importance as a valuable commodity over the intervening years. “Cognisant that as a subset of the agricultural sector, ginger production has a significant impact on revenue generation and farmers’ income, thereby reducing the rate of poverty amongst the local farmers of southern Kaduna and the country at large.
“Also worried that this devastating and unprecedented ginger pandemic affects Nigeria’s non-oil export performance and is already affecting the lives of many individuals within the affected communities of southern Kaduna because ginger is their source of livelihood,” he said.
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