Day 2; Bunu Land, The Untouched Green!

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Bunu my land is green, rich with milk and honey!! Bunu is a district comprising of forty (40) distinct communities, with vast arable land for cultivation of various agricultural products.
The major occupation of my people, from ages past has been farming. Our produce range from yams, cassava, beans, rice, vegetables, tomatoes, to perennial crops like oranges, mangoes, pawpaw, cashew, not leaving behind, livestock production.
Today, my country Nigeria is in recession and the only means of survival now lies in agriculture. The GREEN IN BUNU can be touched, to feed the nation. YES! We are blessed in terms of good fertile lands that support farming.
The world has improved technological  know-how for large scale mechanized farming, of which our lands are most and readily available for use, either by individuals or governments.
But my people are barred from utilizing these modern day opportunities for mechanized farming.
How? We have suffered neglect from successive governments in terms of road networks to our various communities and farm settlements.
I need not tell you how important accessibility to good road is critical to farmers /agricultural produce.
Our roads are not motorable! Untarred with gullies that have become death traps, even in this modern age. We cannot move tractors, ploughs, harrowers and other machineries to our farms for large scale farming. Hence, we are limited to subsistent farming, despite the fact that we can produce enough to feed the nation.
Oh! How my heart sinks yearly to watch my people suffer in silence! How we have continuously folded our arms and watch our produce (which could have generated revenues for us and the government) perish, right before us, after nurturing and tendering our farms, after so much labour and financial inputs.
The pains that envelope my people every planting /harvesting season! Tonnes of oranges, mangoes, yams, cassava, tomatoes, vegetables, etc are lost, as a result of lack of accessible roads to move our produce out for sales and also for off-takers to buy from us.
THE GREEN PART OF BUNU IS STILL UNTOUCHED!!!
We can feed the nation. Yes, We Can!!!
Enough of Neglect!!!

I Write With A Deep Heart To Tell My Story To The World, That The Green In Bunu My Motherland Is Still Untouched.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!
– Towonifinni Mosiko writes from Bunu Kingdom.

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