...NPK’s 50kg more expensive than bag of maize
The average price of NPK has surged by 41 percent over the past year, forcing farmers to abandon food crops in favour of cash crops that require less synthetic manure.
Food crops such as maize, rice, cassava, yam and vegetables require large amo
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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi
Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues.
She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.
