₦airaland Forum

lawani:
Do you know what it means for garri to fall from 1200 to 400 to 500?. It is not easy for the farmers o. Government can also help by finding more use for cassava as this will increase the demand and keep up the price

For me I think most of the commodities were just over priced before. I think the price of diesel has been stable for a very long. Subsidy on diesel has been gone for a long time before the issue of the petrol own come into play so I don't see reason why the just keep jumping and they blame it petrol.

When the price of petrol was at it peak transportation fair skyrocketed now that the price is almost half those transport guys refused to reduce price so I think it is Nigeria thing.

Importation of rice was halted to support local production and what did they do? They over increase the price. I was a strong advocate of local content but one my guys arguing you can't buy what is produce or manufacture here because they will kill you over price and that rice issue prove him right.

JagaLove:
Rubbish write up. For this country wey we dey farmers go sell at a loss? Dey play. I don't believe this cock and bull story. It's a sponsored attempt by an opposition party to cause unbelief among the people and still discredit the current administration. If food prices are getting cheaper, I believe reforms are working. There was even a prophecy to that effect by primate Ayodele himself. According to the prophecy, food will be cheap and available but cash will be scarce which is playing before our very eyes.

Sometimes the produce will go bad if they don't sell at a loss

Flangelo12:
People dey vex say food price dey reduce again?

ungrateful Nigerians 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

UnknownQueen:
Abeg oo where do you buy garri #500, I'll like to know

Garri na 350, 400 Naira for Ibadan o!

DMCY:
Farmers better comport like them fuel marketers or they eat their produce themselves, what more do they want from FG after getting almost everything at subsidized prices.

It is funny that you are comparing farmers with marketers. Farmers produce something, marketers don't! If you frustrate farmers and think you are catching cruise, it is just a matter of time, it will backfire!

Vision101:
Nigerians asked for low prices, called government names and derided the president for high prices. What else do you want the government to do.

They always come from offside angle.

TechToyin:
Many people are happy that food prices are coming down. On the surface, it looks like good news. But there is a serious danger most people are not talking about.

Cheaper food is good for consumers, but not always good for farmers
While buyers enjoy relief, many farmers are selling at a loss.

Cost of farming is still very high
Fertilizer, diesel, transport, labour, and insecurity are still expensive. Prices fell, costs did not.

Farmers are losing capital
Most Nigerian farmers use money from the last harvest to fund the next season. Losses now mean no money later.

Many farmers may not plant next season
When farmers cannot afford seeds, fertilizer, or labour, they reduce production or quit entirely.

This leads to future food shortages
Less planting today means less food tomorrow, which will push prices up again.

Nigeria has no strong price support system
There are no effective minimum price guarantees or working buffer stock programs to protect farmers.

Poor storage forces distress sales
Because farmers can’t store food, they rush to sell during harvest when prices are lowest.

Middlemen and traders also suffer losses
Oversupply and weak demand affect the entire value chain, not just farmers.

Price instability scares investors away
Serious investors avoid agriculture when prices swing wildly from profit to loss.

Low prices today can mean hunger tomorrow
If farmers collapse, Nigeria will depend more on imports and face worse food inflation later.

Bottom line:
The problem is not high prices or low prices. The real problem is unstable prices.
If Nigeria does not protect farmers now, today’s cheap food will become tomorrow’s food crisis.

The government has to step in and buy back from farmers to stabilize prices.

LadyExcellency:
Yes, because many people are now planting plantain and cassava in Southern Nigeria, and the climate and weather conditions have been favourable to agriculture throughout the last year.

When there are improved seedlings and a favourable climate, we have bountiful harvests with the same input at no extra cost.

This is exactly one major thing that brought than food prices. Because of what we experienced in 2024 with the high price of food items,it makes many people went into subsitence farming and God too being a merciful God gave good raining season last year hence the decrease in the prices of food items.

Chegesnd:
You mean Private Investors should go into an unstable and unpredictable sector?
From what the Author said, govt. has a hand in controlling Food prices and protecting Farmers.
Govt. can never take it's hand away from such a critical sector.
Remember what Ronald Reagan - a Capitalist President said, 'if it doesn't work, subsidize it. If it works, tax it. If continues to work, regulate it.
We need a strong policy frame work in the Food Sector, to protect Consumers and Farmers, even to re-energize the Agro Industrial Raw Materials.

So, where do we start from? There's no way government wether at the federal level or otherwise would take its hands off a sector as critical as agriculture.

The solution is to follow the Cameroon agricultural model.
Until Nigeria can seat down and learn from their smaller neighbours the better for this country.

joseph1832:
So What solutuon would you profer ?

When the prices of food was soaring, people like you were lamenting, now it's declining, you're complaining and predicting doom, for the country. I fear una, I no run.

TechToyin:
Many people are happy that food prices are coming down. On the surface, it looks like good news. But there is a serious danger most people are not talking about.

Cheaper food is good for consumers, but not always good for farmers
While buyers enjoy relief, many farmers are selling at a loss.

Cost of farming is still very high
Fertilizer, diesel, transport, labour, and insecurity are still expensive. Prices fell, costs did not.

Farmers are losing capital
Most Nigerian farmers use money from the last harvest to fund the next season. Losses now mean no money later.

Many farmers may not plant next season
When farmers cannot afford seeds, fertilizer, or labour, they reduce production or quit entirely.

This leads to future food shortages
Less planting today means less food tomorrow, which will push prices up again.

Nigeria has no strong price support system
There are no effective minimum price guarantees or working buffer stock programs to protect farmers.

Poor storage forces distress sales
Because farmers can’t store food, they rush to sell during harvest when prices are lowest.

Middlemen and traders also suffer losses
Oversupply and weak demand affect the entire value chain, not just farmers.

Price instability scares investors away
Serious investors avoid agriculture when prices swing wildly from profit to loss.

Low prices today can mean hunger tomorrow
If farmers collapse, Nigeria will depend more on imports and face worse food inflation later.

Bottom line:
The problem is not high prices or low prices. The real problem is unstable prices.
If Nigeria does not protect farmers now, today’s cheap food will become tomorrow’s food crisis.

So you prefer food prices being on the high side?
You must be an enemy of progress.

BlakKluKluxKlan:
I find write-ups like this very disturbing and nauseating.
What could be behind articles like this but mischief ?

The hue and cry in the society is high cost of foodstuffs

Now that the govt reforms begin to yield the expected positive results, we resort to false narratives of fictitious dangers accompanying fall in prices.

In simple economics, product prices are determined by the market forces of supply and demand.
To start with, farmers enjoy subsidised tools of their trade from the govt whilst consumers are generally left on their own

No farmer is, or can be forced to sell at a price inimical to his benefits
So, it goes without saying that if consumers are smiling home from the markets, farmers must also be smiling.

Although it may be argued that farmers are being forced to sell at prices cheaper than the cost of production to avoid loss by perished products due to lack of storage facilities. But this absence of storage facilities is not new but has always been the case from time immemorial

Overall, there is no need raising alarms where and when it is unnecessary

You are correct before this kind alarm be raised we ought to pass through at least three seasons,in other to study the trend and see where government can come in. Even though truly the prices of food items are coming down but it has not reach the point of raising this red flag. To some people they still couldn't afford it.

Predictor3:
So, where do we start from? There's no way government wether at the federal level or otherwise would take its hands off a sector as critical as agriculture.

I was staff of a company that held key in the Food Sector.
By the time the company took loans with double digit interest to invest in massive food production, hoping to recoup it's investment and pay interest on loans, the govt. opens the boarder for massive Food importation.
Importation with near zero duty.
The price of Food (yet low quality) crashes below what the local Farmer can sell.
That's calamity for the farmer!

Flangelo12:
People dey vex say food price dey reduce again?

Lol

Werepe dey their body hidden danger from enemies of progress. I no read your epistle.

TechToyin:
Many people are happy that food prices are coming down. On the surface, it looks like good news. But there is a serious danger most people are not talking about.

Cheaper food is good for consumers, but not always good for farmers
While buyers enjoy relief, many farmers are selling at a loss.

Cost of farming is still very high
Fertilizer, diesel, transport, labour, and insecurity are still expensive. Prices fell, costs did not.

Farmers are losing capital
Most Nigerian farmers use money from the last harvest to fund the next season. Losses now mean no money later.

Many farmers may not plant next season
When farmers cannot afford seeds, fertilizer, or labour, they reduce production or quit entirely.

This leads to future food shortages
Less planting today means less food tomorrow, which will push prices up again.

Nigeria has no strong price support system
There are no effective minimum price guarantees or working buffer stock programs to protect farmers.

Poor storage forces distress sales
Because farmers can’t store food, they rush to sell during harvest when prices are lowest.

Middlemen and traders also suffer losses
Oversupply and weak demand affect the entire value chain, not just farmers.

Price instability scares investors away
Serious investors avoid agriculture when prices swing wildly from profit to loss.

Low prices today can mean hunger tomorrow
If farmers collapse, Nigeria will depend more on imports and face worse food inflation later.

Bottom line:
The problem is not high prices or low prices. The real problem is unstable prices.
If Nigeria does not protect farmers now, today’s cheap food will become tomorrow’s food crisis.

zoghys:
Garri use to be around 600 naira before the subsidy removal. The effect you're seeing is a policy that's is working, and that doesn't mean am a fan of Tinubu or his party. The level of insecurity is alarmingly high, and if they can get it right on that aspect, then we're heading for El dorado.

Thanks for this comment.

Chegesnd:
I was staff of a company that held key in the Food Sector.
By the time the company took loans with double digit interest to invest in massive food production, hoping to recoup it's investment and pay interest on loans, the govt. opens the boarder for massive Food importation.
Importation with near zero duty.
The price of Food (yet low quality) crashes below what the local Farmer can sell.
That's calamity for the farmer!

In such a case, what should be addressed is why farmers abroad can produce cheaper. There is no reason imported food should be more expensive than locally produced food. This current case is about over production. It affects cassava, onions and etc

Flangelo12:
People dey vex say food price dey reduce again?

Food price is still really high this is plot twist they trying to make you have a rethink about your criticism of the government for price of food even though the price is still you have to pity the farmers so that they will not stop farming , as if there have ever been a time the farmers stopped farming because the price is low. This is more like social engineering and believe me its working for them as people are not even talking about the cost of food which is really high but the debate now have change to whether farmers will want to farm ,bullshit.

richiemcgold:
Subsistence farming is one of the reasons food prices dropped. Many people went into small scale farming in 2025, especially here in the south. If the trend continues this year, food prices will even drop further.
You know how many tubers of yams people dey raise from cement bags? Some backyard dey run 300 to 400. Cocoyams, potatoes, tomatoes, vegetables, corn and cassava. People are now growing them very well in the neighborhood.

I love this..

You are an evil person. Let the price reduce more and more

Wickedtruths:
When garri was 1,200, did farmers share the money they were making?

I can't even pity farmers in naija again dem wicked and are opportunistic pass the government,worse than them,and will even do worse if they are the nigerian political leaders when the border was closed because of them for 10 years to stop Importation of food,and fertilizers, farm inputs was subsidized for them was there any improvement in the food production or any relief to the masses?
Very greedy, callous sets of people they hijacked the price of rice that even it couldn't be afforded by the middle class imagine imported rice with import duty and tariff etc was even cheaper than the locally produced,low quality rice with stones that is even tasteless (tastes like chaff)

So the masses should continue to suffer all because of few farmers?naija problem no be even food Importation because the many years food Importation was stopped how did it stop the polithievians from looting from the treasury how did it impart the common man? see everyone kala for nigeria na even the poor people kala pass na because dem never reach the seat of government fem go worse pass the current political leaders so anything nigerians sees they deserve it.

Ever wondered why anything manufactured or produced in nigeria are always more costly than the imported ones? greed and avarice are the bane of a nigerian!!

You mean the federal government subsidies everything for famers?....I am a farmer and I know how much I lost last year on farming, and for you to come out and say this rubbish is really hurts ..I know you might be a Tinubu supporter but pls note that, this post is not about tinumu's administration sir

DMCY:
Farmers better comport like them fuel marketers or they eat their produce themselves, what more do they want from FG after getting almost everything at subsidized prices.

Be deceiving yourselves, when was the last time you ever heard that food got spoilt and wasn't consumed or distributed or sold




There is Nesrea, national stored products research agency institute and their main function id to provide buffers for such


In the north, the weather is predictable, hence they farm and keep during the dry season or they also call it dry season farming. Rice is three months and you can plant it three times in a year, states like Kano or sokoto where rain is three or two months, your harvest will not be spoilt by excessive rain like in the south like Lagos or Bayelsa!




That was what Buhar.i did right during his tenure, the only I'll he did was to not stop those farmers from selling all their produce for dollars abroad and not regulating market price


On the other hand , the only mistake Tin.ubu is making this time is that he hasn't fully completed what Bu.hari started, he should close the border partly, when we can produce sufficiently, then he can close it totally. That's all!

Farmers are greedy somehow, they increased and hoard food in order to cause panic and hike in price

And another problem with food is that there is insecurity everywhere




Bandits, bok.o ha.ram, criminals, kidnappers, ransom collectors who will be threatening farmers to pay N5m or N50m before going to farm or certain percentagr of their produce



Many people have left their farms
When you collect salary, the large chunk of it is consumed by food, or won't you eat
Also farmers and herders clash is another issue
The former govt fueled that issu.e alot and we haven't seen any different approach by this administration.
I too had a farm in my state, Ful.ani guys entered and ate everything. If you plant yam or cassav.a, they will uproot it and feed it to their cows, save if they don't kill you !

https://www.nairaland.com/8605012/bandits-kill-three-injure-one

Make sure you plant something this year. Plant something in your backyard. Plant fruits, vegetables and Plantain. Plantain grows on all kinds of soil . Enough dodo for you and your family. Plant o .

There is serious neglect of fathers by the government. At least they deserve a subsidized fertilizer and other essential farming inputs. Here in the North the farmers are really counting losses. They get into more troubles by sending more of their harvest to South thinking to get better sell instead crashing the price even further in process. Because many are eyeing South to cover their losses.

TechToyin:
Many people are happy that food prices are coming down. On the surface, it looks like good news. But there is a serious danger most people are not talking about.

Cheaper food is good for consumers, but not always good for farmers
While buyers enjoy relief, many farmers are selling at a loss.

Cost of farming is still very high
Fertilizer, diesel, transport, labour, and insecurity are still expensive. Prices fell, costs did not.

Farmers are losing capital
Most Nigerian farmers use money from the last harvest to fund the next season. Losses now mean no money later.

Many farmers may not plant next season
When farmers cannot afford seeds, fertilizer, or labour, they reduce production or quit entirely.

This leads to future food shortages
Less planting today means less food tomorrow, which will push prices up again.

Nigeria has no strong price support system
There are no effective minimum price guarantees or working buffer stock programs to protect farmers.

Poor storage forces distress sales
Because farmers can’t store food, they rush to sell during harvest when prices are lowest.

Middlemen and traders also suffer losses
Oversupply and weak demand affect the entire value chain, not just farmers.

Price instability scares investors away
Serious investors avoid agriculture when prices swing wildly from profit to loss.

Low prices today can mean hunger tomorrow
If farmers collapse, Nigeria will depend more on imports and face worse food inflation later.

Bottom line:
The problem is not high prices or low prices. The real problem is unstable prices.
If Nigeria does not protect farmers now, today’s cheap food will become tomorrow’s food crisis.

Focus should be on what is making the cost of farming expensive, also, it has been observed that so many people are not into farming...while we also have political farmers

Which food come down,na rice,beans and garri be Nigeria only food

Redman44:
Make sure you plant something this year. Plant something in your backyard. Plant fruits, vegetables and Plantain. Plantain grows on all kinds of soil . Enough dodo for you and your family. Plant o .

Hello!👋🏼

I have a question to ask: so, I had grafted guava planted, and not long after, the leaves began to dry up, and they fall off at the slightest touch, but I still watered it regardless.
Do you think the plant will survive?

It not easy to be a leader, see how few to nobody is not talking about how the government have been working for food to come dawn due to how Nigerians are lamenting, he don come dawn now same Nigerians they complain again
Na why oyinbo say uneasy lies the head that wear the crown 👑 if you do for some people other people go shout if you tdo for other some people go shout also, if you do for all some go still talk I wonder maybe some of this our leaders go they sleep self due to plenty problem them day face,but I no fit pity any of them so far you bring yourself out to lead many people like Nigerians with plenty diverse people, with only few reasonable of them na your problem be that they face am, na make we just they pray for you make you see something do because you no fit do all or satisfy everyone

Flangelo12:
People dey vex say food price dey reduce again?

If cost of farming is so high, how come you say price of food is reducing