Buruku

Buruku is a Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria.

Buruku LGA consists of the following districts (wards) with their projected population as of December 2017: Over 80% of adults in this rural population are engaged in food crop production but each household also holds some livestock and citrus farm.

The crop farmers produce yams, cassava, soyabeans, rice, groundnuts, sesame seed (beniseed), beans, guinea corn, millet, bambara nuts, ginger, sugar cane, and maize.

Rice is also produced in commercial quantities along the River Katsina-Ala basin and its streams/tributaries.

Buruku has a large citrus and soya beans market at Ityowanye.