As part of efforts to mitigate the effects of flood in some communities along the riverine areas, the State co-ordination office of the IFAD VCDP has notified the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance
Corporation of the disaster.
The situation however, took the State Head of the organization to Anambra East and West Local Government Areas for proper documentation and evaluation.
On arrival at Anambra West Local Government area, the team noticed that the entire area has been flooded while all the inhabitants have relocated to Holding Centers across the State.
Speaking, on the development, the State Head of Agric Insurance, Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation, Mr Oseloka Uzoma, described the harvoc as a huge lost to farmers.
Mr. Uzoma, who assured of the organizations intervention, lamented that nothing can be harvested from the farm.
The IFAD-VCDP Liaison Officer for Anambra West Local Government Area Mr. Rufus Imoka, noted that the two thousand, three hundred and twenty-eight VCDP rice and cassava farmers in the Local Government area were insured.
In their separate speeches, the chairman, cassava platform Anambra West, Local Government Area, Prince Paul Okolo and the chairman Anambra East VCDP rice farmers, Chief Udenze Ofordile disclosed that about forty haecters of cassava farm and twenty haecters of rice farm almost due for harvest have been submerged by the flood appealing for assistance from all levels of government.
Narrating his ordeal, a seed rice entrepreneur who was trained by IFAD VCDP at International Institute for Tropical Agriculture Ibadan, Oyo State, Mr Chibuzo Obiechina, said his two point five haecters of seed rice farm which the National Seed Council of Nigeria visited last two weeks during transplanting has been covered by flood.
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