Heavy rain and hailstones have destroyed crops worth over N40million in Bagwai local government area of Kano state according to the council vice chairman Aminu Ibrahim Gogori.
Galaxy tv correspondent King Richard reports that the heavy downpour on Monday night destroyed maize, onion, sesame, millet, and cotton crops.
Gogori said the affected areas are Gadanya, Gadanya Gabas, Jobe, Tsauwa, Tsattawa and Galawa.
He pointed out that over 445 farmers were affected by the disaster.
He said the council is assessing the exact cost of the damage in order to forward it to appropriate authorities for necessary action.
In their separate remarks the village head of Gadanya Shuaibu Abubakar and his counterpart of Jobe village Abdullahi Lawal called on federal and state governments to come to their rescue.
When contacted, the Executive Secretary Kano State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) Sale Aliyu Jili described the incident as devastating.
Jili appealed to National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and corporate organizations to assist the victims.
He pledged that SEMA will do its best to assist disaster victims in Kano state.
