Prof. James Ayatse, the Tor Tiv, has called for the integration of crop and livestock farming to checkmate the clashes between farmers and herdsmen in the country. He also called on government and stakeholders to evolve formula for lasting peaceful coexistence between the two in the crisis affected areas. The traditional ruler, who decried the wave of attacks allegedly by armed herders, said that the attack was a threat to peaceful coexistence of the herders and farmers. “The new wave of armed attack in last eight years is a new development. “So I think the best way to do is to see how the crop farming and livestock farming can be done alongside without one destroying the other.

Source: The Guardian May 25, 2019 14:59 UTC