Farmers in Cross River State are fighting blackpod disease as rainfall increases in the South East of the country.
“The rain pattern is causing infection to crops,” Godwin Ukwu, a farmer and spokesman for the Cocoa Association of Nigeria, said in a phone interview on Wednesday from Ikom, the la
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