Following a Daily Trust report, the National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) Gombe Centre has concluded plans to conduct research on diseases and pests dislodging watermelon farmers in Bara village, Kirfi Local Government Area of Bauchi State to the Republic of Cameroon.
The Deputy Head of NIHORT, Gombe Station, Nasiru Usman, who disclosed the development said a NIHORT research team would be visiting Bara village to verify information published in Daily Trust in preparation for conducting research toward tackling the challenges threatening watermelon farming in the area.
Usman said, “We want to visit Bara and have interaction with the farmers that encountered the watermelon diseases and pests’ challenges that defied their efforts to handle and also to see the affected farms that faced the problems.
“The visit is a preparation plan for the research on the affected farms because we read the reports in the Daily Trust newspaper and we need to verify the information to conduct comprehensive research about the challenges to ascertain the causes and find lasting solutions to the challenges.”
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It will be recalled that Daily Trust had last month reported how diseases and pests compelled the migration of hundreds of watermelon farmers in Bara, Bauchi State, to Cameroon.
