WIRE — The farming season has begun once again, but for many communities in Katsina, Sokoto, Zamfara, Yobe, and other northern states affected by banditry, it is a period of fear and loss rather than hope and gain. Previous reports have shown how armed bandits imposed illegal "farming taxes" on struggling farmers trying to provide food for Farmers face bandit taxes as insecurity threatens food production in northern Nigeria
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