The proliferation of an invasive weed known as typha grass, is threatening the agricultural ecology of the Kumadugu Yobe Basin wetland in Jigawa State. The weed hinders crop production, fishing activities and destroys grazing fields.

The Typha grass covers 365sq km of land across six local government areas of the state, thereby limiting farming to only about 40 per cent of the land because it makes a flow of water in the affected farmlands impossible.

Our reporter observed that the blockage of water by the weed upstream in the affected areas led to the stagnation of water in the fields which makes farming impossible.

This also causes the other communities along the waterway of the wetland basin to suffer lack of water.

Typha grass, which grows luxuriously across Miga, Kaugama, Auyo, Kirikisima, Guri and Birniwa local government areas of Jigawa State, competes with food crops for water, sunlight, air, space and nutrients.
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