Farmers have given reasons for the price of onions and the scarcity of the produce in the country.
The National President, Aliyu Isah, gave the reasons in an interview on Sunday in Lagos.
Nigeria witnessed a soaring rise in the price of onions from the fourth quarter of 2024 with a bag selling between N250,000 and N270,000.
The Onion Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria has explaimed reasons for the hike in the price of onions and the scarcity of the produce in the country
The National President of the Association, Mr Aliyu Isah, gave the reasons in an interview with the newsmen on Sunday in Lagos.
Nigeria witnessed a soaring rise in the price of onions from the fourth quarter of 2024 with a bag selling between N250,000 and N270,000 as against N70,000 and N90,000 per bag in previous months.
While a medium-sized bulb of the produce sells at N500 as against N50 per bulb.
Isah said that the reasons for the hike in onion price were multifaceted, leading to low production of the produce.
“What caused the scarcity and high cost of onions from the last quarter of 2024 till now is the flooding.
“The flooding of 2024 that ravaged all our onion farms, from the producing bed of Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, up to Adamawa states resulted in the scarcity of the produce.
“We also had the problem affecting onion production with the release of water from dams from the northern states.
In Sokoto, the water was released from Goroyo Dam, when it got to a certain level it affected the onion beds from Sokoto, Kebbi and up to Zamfara states.
