Problems associated with the destruction of cultivated crops by herdsmen accessing grazing fields are bound to intensity.
The earliest residents were herdsmen, karamokobe and traders, and people holding those three occupations shaped subsequent community growth and interactions with local populations.
The herdsmen call it ' marmot sickness ' after the rodents that are chiefly responsible for carrying the disease.
Among those using husks for boiler fuel, 11 allowed local herdsmen to remove the excess as a feed supplement for their cattle.
At a number of ginneries, herdsmen were allowed to remove seed husks that accumulate at the ginneries as a byproduct of oil extraction.
Remunerations for herdsmen consist mainly of the animal's milk, manure and the use of farmlands around the compound.
They also insist that such destruction is not due to foul play or mischief on the part of the herdsmen.
Consequently, rules concerning time and spatial distribution of millet cultivation were less exact and depended predominantly on the co-ordination achieved by groups of herdsmen.
