They prepared, borrowed money and materials to invest in efforts at getting a bountiful harvest in the year 2020. Many of them, apparently encouraged by the experience of the past few years, did not want to waste the opportunity offered by the times. But before the end of the first quarter of the year a pandemic, not seen in recent history, happened on the world and sent everybody scampering for cover.
This is the lamentation of Peace Chijioke, one of the small scale women farmers resident in Abuja as she recounts the recent ordeal she and her family went through following the lockdown necessitated by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Smallholder women farmers' contributions to food security in Nasarawa State is no doubt being threatened by inadequate information and access to critical farm inputs despite government efforts towards revamping the agricultural sector.
