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Flood destroys grain in the north

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    Rain-fed flash floods have destroyed an estimated seven million naira (US $72,388) of farm produce in the northern state of Katsina, according to the area's representative in the Katsina House of Assembly, Alhaji Abdu Dutsin-Ma.

    In a debate in the House, he said the rain caused the Zobe Dam located in the Dutsin-Ma local government area to overflow, washing away millet, groundnuts, guinea corn and beans.

    He appealed for state and federal help to the affected farmers who, he said, were inadequately compensated when the site was acquired to build the dam. With the rainy season nearing its end and their corps destroyed, he said, the farmers might be left with nothing to depend on.

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