Nigeria: Investigation - How Decades of Gas Flaring Harm Nigerians (Part II)

One humid morning, at the peak of the harvest season in 2010, Dandy Mgbenwa, 50, accompanied by his wife, set out for their farm situated about 500 metres from the gas flare site at Ebocha.

The year's planting season had been fraught with several challenges. First, an outbreak of diseased cassava stems meant that most farmers had to buy healthy ones from the market. And then, shifting cultivation being a widespread practice in the communities, the farm near the flare site at Ebocha was the next in line for cultivation by Mr. Mgbenwa.

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