There has been a massive cultivation of beans, also known as cowpea, in Katsina State this year. This is in contrast to what was obtainable in the state in the past years.

Our correspondent in the state reports that in the past 10 years, farmers only planted the crop as an attachment to their main crops, without giving it special care.

That was the main reason the produce was always in short supply, thereby jerking up its price in the state.

Daily Trust reports that cowpea farmers in the state are now rushing to buy the needed pesticides for beans cultivation, which the dealers have cashed in on to increase prices.

Alhaji Sani Abdullahi, a farmer in Faskari LGA, attributed the farmers’ interest in the crop this year to its present high economic value.

“Besides the agricultural revolution that is gradually taking place in the country, farmers are now veering away from subsistence to profit-oriented farming; and cowpea is always an expensive commodity, costing N18,000 and at times N30,000 per 100Kg every year. That is why almost every farm is a cowpea farm in this area, today, despite the difficulties in its cultivation,” he explained.

He noted that new technology, innovation and the right information to farmers were fast simplifying the production of the crop in the state.

“The choice of right seeds was a serious issue to farmers in the past but the availability of herbicides, pesticides varieties and different improved seeds have now simplified everything for the farmers,” he added.

Another farmer, Malam Yusha’u Aliyu, said cowpea production was going hand in hand with maize farming this year as every maize farm is a potential cowpea farm.
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