Nigeria sees higher maize output despite higher costs, insecurity

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00:34 I was even talking about not going much into the agriculture.

00:38 It's not because of the increase in impute alone,

00:42 but because our lives are not really secure in the farms.

00:45 So it makes us, we are not really safe like we used to be before.

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01:30 A lot of funds have been advanced to farmers using the Angkor Boreal Programme framework.

01:36 But whether you like it or not, it's still not enough,

01:40 because many farmers are still being deprived of the opportunity of benefiting from the Angkor Boreal Programme.

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02:19 Last year we bought a bag of corn, 2,000.

02:22 And this year we also bought 2,500.

02:25 So our customers, they are complaining that the corn is very costly.

02:30 We don't know what happened last year.

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02:42 I believe it will help us to cover up for the cost of the expenses during the farming season.

02:49 So the current price in the market is not bad. We are happy with it.

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