Nigerian women farmers are shifting from the high cost of diesel to the long-term savings offered by solar energy. Despite persistent challenges in accessing renewable energy solutions, these farmers are adopting clean energy technologies to reduce Nigeria’s estimated $10bn in food losses, transforming agricultural production and post-harvest practices in the process, reports ARINZE NWAFOR
Chinasa Asonye, a farmer in Ikorodu, Lagos State, wakes up each morning to the cost of running her fish ponds and poultry pens. By dawn, she must ensure water is pumped into the ponds. She must light her poultry house and keep it ventilated. Her birds need feeding, and fish require fresh water. All these tasks depend on the increasingly expensive energy in Nigeria.
Many farmers, like Asonye, the National Secretary of the Small-Scale Women Farmers Organisation, have long relied on self-generated power. It meant spending time and money to purchase petrol for the generator.
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