₦airaland Forum

Nigerian Farmers Are In Trouble: See 2000 Naira Yam In Kaduna

It is no longer news that price of food stuffs has come down to some extent. This is good news to the consumers and bad news to farmers. This price drop is as a result of importation of food stuffs.

This present Government gave improvers the green light to import food stuffs into the Country with zero tax. This has affected Nigerian farmers who invested millions to farm. Nigerian farmers this year will not be able to make 50% of their investments in farming this year.


As a farmer. Whenever I am transporting myself and workers to the farm, I spend 18k on fuel my vehicle. Buy food for my workers. Fertilizer is between 55k to 70k per bag. Herbicide chemical is from 5k to 15k. To rent a tractor for five days will cost over a million. Plus the risk of going to the farm as Kidnappers and armed robbers are everywhere.

After spending all this money and risk taken, you still can't recover the amount you invested.

The best way to bring down the price of food stuffs is by reducing the prices of Fertilizer, Seedlings, Herbicide chemicals, Tractor services and fuel. When this is achieved, prices of food will come down naturally.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0CwxibpDlQ

*Picture 1- 2000 naira yam
*Picture 2- 3700 naira yam

Over 5 yams for 2k?
One of that yam is going for 2k over here in Port Harcourt

Nigerians don't think that way. They just prefer to blame farmers for high prices of food and tag farmers of being wicked. No one cares what it cost to produce. No one cares about the risk you take while going to the farm.

As you are complaining like this, they'll soon tag you as wicked. They won't even want to pay attention to your alternative suggestion of helping subsidising production cost which will lead to the same result of price reduction. You will hear things like, Nigerians are the problem of Nigerians.

I pity those who took loans to invest in rice milling factories.

Hop3:
Over 5 yams for 2k?
One of that yam is going for 2k over here

and that's for the smallest of it

mecuries:
and that's for the smallest of it

Just imagine


nlfpmod

Na that side e cheap ooo, it’s on the expensive side for here…

Which part of Kaduna?

Very cheap....down south here,10k nor buy that yam.

Meanwhile these were mine i harvested from my sack plant
The meal i prepared with it.

The govt only took the least path to resistance by massively importing cheap grains as a stop gap measure to food price inflation, with 2027 election in view. Farmers are now left bemoaning their fate like orphans. Under Buhari, farmers were economically empowered because he understood how important they were in ensuring national food security and overall economic stability. I think Tinubu considers taxes more important than massive investment in the agricultural sector.

This Agriculture business doesn't move me 1 bit. You are the mercy of virtually everything both nature and humans. From no rains to too much rains, pests, Fulani herdsmen, and even theft, then poor sales after harvest. Nothing is under your control. And same Agriculture is very important. Why can't agriculture be very lucrative with oil and gas?

Caaz:
Very cheap....down south here,10k nor buy that yam.

Meanwhile these were mine i harvested from my sack plant

Nice one

LocalFARMERS:
It is no longer news that price of food stuffs has come down to some extent. This is good news to the consumers and bad news to farmers. This price drop is as a result of importation of food stuffs.

This present Government gave improvers the green light to import food stuffs into the Country with zero tax. This has affected Nigerian farmers who invested millions to farm. Nigerian farmers this year will not be able to make 50% of their investments in farming this year.


As a farmer. Whenever I am transporting myself and workers to the farm, I spend 18k on fuel my vehicle. Buy food for my workers. Fertilizer is between 55k to 70k per bag. Herbicide chemical is from 5k to 15k. To rent a tractor for five days will cost over a million. Plus the risk of going to the farm as Kidnappers and armed robbers are everywhere.

After spending all this money and risk taken, you still can't recover the amount you invested.

The best way to bring down the price of food stuffs is by reducing the prices of Fertilizer, Seedlings, Herbicide chemicals, Tractor services and fuel. When this is achieved, prices of food will come down naturally.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0CwxibpDlQ

As a farmer. Whenever I am transporting myself and workers to the farm, I spend 18k on fuel my vehicle. Buy food for my workers. Fertilizer is between 55k to 70k per bag. Herbicide chemical is from 5k to 15k. To rent a tractor for five days will cost over a million. Plus the risk of going to the farm as Kidnappers and armed robbers are everywhere.

Guy, your lamba dey too much, b kiaful

It is too expensive jare. During gej time 5 big ones goes for N1300. We are talking about the north where it is produced nah

How quick life has changed!Some years ago when GEJ was a President this used to go for petty sum of N500.

Hop3:
Over 5 yams for 2k?
One of that yam is going for 2k over here

yes, everywhere in the south,one of that yam is 2k

Food is really cheap in the north despite the onslaught of banditry

Hop3:
Over 5 yams for 2k?
One of that yam is going for 2k over here

Where is ' Over here's?
Which State and what Local government?
Always let your Statement be clear,with purpose?

We dey really hear am for Lag here oooo. I bought 4tubers last week for 2k each.

Yep...food prices are coming down but not yet to the level the clueless Mr grab it and run away with it met it....this may be due to harvest season and other factors though.

Before e enter moto reach Lagos ,e go enter 20k and them go tell us say na insecurity in the north cause am.

I still dey wonder where food don come down for Lagos 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Oga forget Lamba. We are just our own problem in this country. I remembered back then in 2019 that Buhari was still planning to ban the importation of foreign rice, l went down to a local rice farming village here to run a market survey, and the farmers were still offering a bushel of rice (25kg) for 3k. And it was around the middle of September then, so they had done the harvesting, and factored everything in. But believe it or not, two months later that Buhari finally banned foreign rice, l went down to the same market and the price of the same one bushel of rice has jumped to 7k with abeg oo, which is over a 100% increase in just 2 months!!! Of course, l understand the basic laws of demand and supply, and that prices will always rise with increased demand and lesser supply. But almost 120% price increase in just two months is not based on any laws of demand and supply anything. That one is simply based on the laws of the Greediness and Selfishness of We Nigerians. So who's deceiving who here

In South south here that yam is 10k last with abeg

israelmao:
How quick life has changed!Some years ago when GEJ was a President this used to go for petty sum of N500.

Don’t mind them, in fact, when Abacha was president this used to go for fifty naira

Celestialsword:
yes, everywhere in the south,one of that yam is 2k

Food is really cheap in the north despite the onslaught of banditry

But why is it that even some things more produced in the south are still expensive in the south compared to north?.

Small time , they will na Tinubu send you.

This same kaduna we dey? or another place

Folks can be funny. Food is now cheap and they are not celebrating it. It is Ebi npawa and tales of hunger in the land they know how to trumpet!

Gotocourt:
As a farmer. Whenever I am transporting myself and workers to the farm, I spend 18k on fuel my vehicle. Buy food for my workers. Fertilizer is between 55k to 70k per bag. Herbicide chemical is from 5k to 15k. To rent a tractor for five days will cost over a million. Plus the risk of going to the farm as Kidnappers and armed robbers are everywhere.

Guy, your lamba dey too much, b kiaful

He is a bloody liar.

He should mention the brand of herbicides he bought for 15k.

You cant buy that yam anywhere for 2k in Kaduna. Not even in the remote villages.

Bloody liar

israelmao:
How quick life has changed!Some years ago when GEJ was a President this used to go for petty sum of N500.

You should be worried about how quick it takes you to believe anything you read on line.

That guy is a cheap liar.

It is well with Nigerians.

By the time you send it to the south, transportation would have added much to the cost and the trader will add his profit, then the consumer ends up paying through the nose!

It's relatively cheap... That's like 500 per tuber..... Cos I can see 4 tubers or so...