Bauchi -- Maize Farmers in Bauchi State had been recording 100 per cent yield per hectare in the past three years as a results of adopting striga weed control techniques introduced in 2011.
Programme Manager of Bauchi State Agricultural Development Programme, BSADP, Dr Iliyasu Gital, told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Bauchi yesterday that the techniques had helped control damage done to crops by triga weed, specie of parasitic plant that suffocates and destroys crops.
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