Soaring demands, flooding and poor storage facilities are the main causes of the skyrocketing price of onions in Nigeria, a Premium Times check has revealed.
Households
in Nigeria now have to dig deeper into their pockets to buy onions, one of the
most commonly consumed vegetables in the country as prices have risen sharply
due to a biting shortage.
In
the past month, prices have been on a steady rise as scarcity hits markets
across the country.
Consumers
have taken to social media to trade complaints about the surging prices,
comparing price rates in different regions of the country.
The
price of a bag of onions has shot up by nearly 200 per cent, according to price
checks done by this reporter in markets in at least five states across Nigeria.
During
a visit at the Olojudo market, Ido Ekiti in Ekiti State, both sellers and
buyers who believe the spike is seasonal gave an insight into how onion prices
and availability is increasingly becoming a problem.
Prices
differ in different regions depending on the availability of onions.
“The
price of onions is usually higher this time of the year, November to December
because this is the time when farmers grow this crop,” Mallam Dogo, an onion
dealer, said.
“A
bag of onions sold at the rate N18,000 before is now sold for N58,000,” he
said.
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Premium Times
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