I have been to some IDPs villages during the weekend. Noticed vast plantation areas of maize along the way. Forests were destroyed for maize plantation.
Maize is a cash crop introduced by development agencies. The farmers adopted it as the cropping takes a short time to get money.
However maize needs more area, more fertilizers and more pesticides to get high yields. So the farmers have to invest more each year and some are in depts.
"Cash crops" then may lead to "Crash farmers" and "Crash Communities".
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