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Over Here, Before Now, One Yam Is Sold @ 500naira

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

Go to mile 12.

I got 10 large pieces of yam for 14k as I was passing through Lafia. It came to 1400 per piece. I was in a rush but I'm sure with proper bargaining, I could have gotten it for lesser.

omoredia:
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

During Abacha 5 big Yams cost 300 naira. During Shagari 5 big yams cost 50 Naira.

GEJ destroyed our economy.

Southerners are lazy mother suckers.

We get better rich earth but we np wan do hard labour. So now this guy's de knife us and add gbogbue gbogbue say transport cost. Our own na to open mouth wide eat.

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

Have you ever owned a farm? Where do you get the best land for farming, is it within the city, close to a town/city or deep inside the forest? Do you even know how much is a litter of petrol?

yam is overrated cocoyam is better especially when fried, coco fries are very cool and crispy too

saintbillion:
This same kaduna we dey? or another place

Yam and other foodstuffs are insanely cheap in KD and other northern states.

zoedew:
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!

"Ebi n pa wa" is more in tune with their hope and vision for Nigeria.
How can a sane person be unhappy because food prices are coming down.

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

How much was a similar quantity and quality of yarn in 2015 when minimum wage was 18k and unemployment rate was lower in PDP’s prosperity era?

The prosperity that was driven by deregulation and privatisation capitalist policies. All this was destroyed when Obasanjo joined Tinubu to make his 2011 expired soldier president, even though Baba Iyabo knew Buhari was clueless about the economy.

thisweekng:
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.

He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.

He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.

“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.

“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.”
Private sector to drive the economy

https://nairametrics.com/2023/09/01/the-last-time-nigerias-economy-was-stable-was-about-a-decade-ago-wale-edun/

ElSudani:
"Ebi n pa wa" is more in tune with their hope and vision for Nigeria.
How can a sane person be unhappy because food prices are coming down.

Simply amazing!

omoredia:
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

Stop comparing subsidy and post-subsidy era

Peeggss hammacar

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

Meanwhile these were mine i harvested from my sack plant

abeg where you dey. You dey always get food. Make I move come there so you go dey gimme

Dotherightthing:
Stop comparing subsidy and post-subsidy era

Peeggss hammacar

Which subsidy? There is no subsidy only looting. U need to wake up from ur slumber

omoredia:
Which subsidy? There is no subsidy only looting. U need to wake up from ur slumber

Whatever tickles your fancy. Prices can never be the same as that era at least for now.

Sweet doya, if we know pound it with ego riro, plus egusi and clean water. With ogogo or isapa soup.

Dotherightthing:
Whatever tickles your fancy. Prices can never be the same as that era at least for now.

Thats what failures will say. That good things can never happen until people that do not have a mediocre mindset gets things done.

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

I bet you that yam will be tasteless or even bitter... That's why it's cheap... I don stay North before, so nor ask me how I take know😋😋

They're very very ship.

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

Hold your 10-15 kpa, if to say na PH

Dogalmighty17:
I got 10 large pieces of yam for 14k as I was passing through Lafia. It came to 1400 per piece. I was in a rush but I'm sure with proper bargaining, I could have gotten it for lesser.

Dem don guy you.

Bizmind95:
Oga forget Lamba. Nigerians are just their own problem. 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!!! So who's deceiving who here We Nigerians are the most greediest people on Earth!!! Yet we blame the Government for everything. But we are also part of the problem.

Nothing greedy there. It is basic economics. Supply of rice in the market has been restricted as foreign rice has been barred from entry. Restricted supply + increasing demand = higher prices. Now, foreign rice is allowed entry while there is a surplus of local rice. The result? Reduced prices.

How is this difficult to grasp?

LocalFARMERS:
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

Try buying it in lagos

Bizmind95:
Oga forget Lamba. Nigerians are just their own problem. 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!!! So who's deceiving who here We Nigerians are the most greediest people on Earth!!! Yet we blame the Government for everything. But we are also part of the problem.

The government is to blame.

Once they stopped importation, the farming economy adjusted to that situation - food went up, but the prices of farm inputs also went up. Now they started to allow imports, without doing anything to protect farmers and help them be competitive. Food prices are down, but farm input prices are still up there - they certainly were when we slashed and planted. So farmers are going to lose massively and the country's future food security is threatened. In the end, all the talk about encouraging youth to go back to farms is just noise.

Gerrard59:
Nothing greedy there. It is basic economics. Supply of rice in the market has been restricted as foreign rice has been barred from entry. Restricted supply + increasing demand = higher prices. Now, foreign rice is allowed entry while there is a surplus of local rice. The result? Reduced prices.

How is this difficult to grasp?

You're trying to explain basic economics to our people. I wish you luck finding anyone who understands.

LocalFARMERS:
Have you ever owned a farm? Where do you get the best land for farming, is it within the city, close to a town/city or deep inside the forest? Do you even know how much is a litter of petrol?

Don't mind these people. I live in Lagos and my farm is in Ogun State. Any time I go, I spend 35k.

You didn't lie bro. I am even staying in pH too

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

JuanDeDios:
You're trying to explain basic economics to our people. I wish you luck finding anyone who understands.

Two things I have realised after reading commentary from our people:

- They don't understand basic economics. This is worse with the so-called "educated" southerners who want to be socialist in other people's business, but be capitalist in their own business.
- Many Nigerians have numeracy issues, so they dish out figures anyhow and when asked to defend the statement, they get angry.

safarifarms:
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.

Nigerian government is importing food items being subsidized by the leaders of the countries they are importing from while the production costs of the Nigerian farmers are skyrocketing without any program from Nigerian government to reduce agricultural input costs in their own country. A government that cares for local production and that cares for her farmers' welfare will not go that route.

Svoboda:
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.

Let's be sincere for once! Buhari literally opened the vaults for Rice farmers especially, he even went ahead to lock our borders because he wanted us to increase local output, if not fully sufficient but you and I were witness to the price disparity between the locally produced rice and imported rice!

Why?

Hoarding which resulted to artificial scarcity! BUA buttressed this point and now the same farmers are lamenting! No government will fold it's hands and watch its farmers starve its people when it can easily import.

It's either this importation or a price control mechanism and since these farmers wouldn't want an across the board price control, they should count their "loses" with the FG importation initiative until we get it right in this sector!

omoredia:
Thats what failures will say. That good things can never happen until people that do not have a mediocre mindset gets things done.

Nothing is impossible. But a lot work of needs to be done and we are making progress.

But to compare this era with subsidy era is lunaccyy taken too far