She prospered in the business, harvesting thousands of yam produce and seedlings, and about 30 to 50 bags of rice and 20 to 40 bags of groundnut and millet annually, she recalled.
Unlike some women who complain about lack of support on the farm from family members, Mrs Godwin said her husband and children helped her in the field.The crisis direly affected Mrs Godwin’s farming business. She no longer have her own land since leaving her own community but farms on six hectares of land she leased in different locations in the state.
And she now plants mainly groundnut, millet and maize because yam does not grow well in Lafia as in Tudun Adebu, her ancestral community.Due to the small size of her farm, she cultivates rice basically for consumption. “I really want to go back to rice farming but I don’t have the money. I cannot get a land close to my house so I have to travel and other basic factors affect me,” she said.In 2020, she harvested only six bags of groundnut, four bags of millet and five bags of maize.
“I have not achieved much in farming and I don’t think I can meet the target I set for myself,” she lamented. “Still, I love farming so much that I told myself that I will die as a farmer.”