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Fear of food shortages in northeastern Adamawa State

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    At least 70 percent of farm crops have been lost to floods in parts of Nigeria's northeastern Adamawa State raising fears of food shortages in three local government areas, the state-run News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported.

    The agency said on Monday that the floods had dashed earlier hopes of a bumper harvest in Demsa, Numan and Lamurde, which are the affected areas.

    NAN quoted experts as blaming the flooding on the unusually long break in the rainfall pattern, the beginning of which resulted in the River Benue breaking its banks. This submerged homes and farmlands in some 50 communities in the three areas.

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