In the wake of the 2022 flood disasters, peasant farmers have continued to grapple with challenges as many of them, in the most affected states, say they were denied relief materials by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development had, in November 2022, estimated the total direct economic damage of the flood at $6.68 billion dollars. (Equivalent to N3 trillion naira).
The ministry also noted that the worst affected states were Rivers, Taraba, Cross River, Jigawa, Bayelsa and Delta, with about 944, 989 hectares of farmland destroyed. This was besides the death of 665 citizens and the displacement of over two million others
