Flood: Businessman Urges Farmers To Build High Stakes

With the reality of flooding increasing day by the day, a Lagos-based businessman, Mr. Tony Muzan has appealed to farmers to prepare high stakes to enable them store their produce.
Mr Muzan who spoke to our correspondent in a telephone interview on Monday said all the farmers especially in Rivers State and  Abua in particular should go back to the traditional way of preserving food.
“They should prepare stakes and should make them higher. “If in the past they made stakes as high as six feet, this time around they should prepare the ones as high as ten feet and above depending on the level of the water”, he said.
While expressing fear over the expected high magnitude of the 2013 flood, he said one of the major challenges for farmers from Aminigboko and Owerewere Communities was the location of most of the land maps on flood prone ones.
“The centre of flooding may have affected up to 90% of land if not 100% depending on the level of the flood.
“The devastation last year was great and it is as good as to say hunger has taken over the land”, he said.
He explained that last year, appeals made to the Abua/Odual local government authorities and  the member representing the area in the National Assembly to liaise with the Federal Government proved abortive.
“Else where when floods of such  magnitude occur, even the United Nations (UN) come in to assist”, he said.
He further called on the farmers in the area to be cautious because most of their products were tubers and means of preservation was a major challenge.
“Let them covert their products to secondary products like garri and their like”, he said.