Soaring food prices dampen Ramadan spirits in Nigeria

France24 ^ | March

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Lagos (AFP) – The holy fasting month of Ramadan begins early next week in Nigeria, with the worst economic crisis in a generation leaving many in Africa's most populous Muslim country struggling to buy food.

With food inflation at around 35 percent, worshippers taking part in Friday prayers at the central mosque in Lagos told AFP they were barely able to provide for their families.

"Some people already started fasting because they can't afford to eat," said Owoyemi Sherifent Mojisola, 54, in the mosque in Nigeria's economic capital.

"Everything is expensive at the moment."

Many poor Nigerians have had to skip meals and give up products such as meat, eggs and milk.

"It's really hard," said Idihabom Nafisah Oyebanji, a 42-year-old mother at the central mosque, who said she was unable to afford her favourite Ramadan foods, including milk and melon.

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Drop some Skittles on them.

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Goats browse, not graze. The only time they eat close to the ground is when they’re penned in a small area and are forced to eat it down that low. One of their preferences is the top leaves on saplings. They get up on their hind legs to reach and maybe bend the sapling over if small enough. They’ll also eat anything with thorns, from the top down. It’s a wild thing to watch them munch their way down a blackberry cane with half inch long thorns.

There’s only about a 15-20% overlap in what goats and cattle eat.(unless there’s only one or two things to eat)

https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/co-grazing-meat-goats-and-beef-cattle-has-many-advantages

“” Given the opportunity, goats will select over 60% of their daily ration from brush (multiflora rose, saplings, young leafy trees, black locust, briars, brambles, sumac, honeysuckle, privet, Virginia trumpet creeper, etc.) and broadleaf weeds (pigweed, dock, horseweed, wild lettuce, lambsquarters, poison ivy, etc.) over herbaceous species such as fescue, bluegrass, clover, orchardgrass or crabgrass pastures “”

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That's what those big white dogs are for.

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