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Prices Of Tomatoes, Pepper, Onions Reduce By 45% In Lagos

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: December 13, 2017
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Christmas celebration is at the corner and prices of tomatoes, pepper, and onions have reduced by about 45 per cent in Lagos.

NAN price checks at Mile 12, Whitesand, Iddo and Oko Oba markets in Lagos on Monday, revealed that the drop in prices was due to a bumper harvest of agricultural produce.

The news agency reports that a basket of tomatoes, which previously sold for N15,000 now goes for N8, 000 while red pepper (tatashe) now cost N8000 compared to its previous price of N14,000 a basket.

A basket of chili pepper (rodo) also reduced from N18, 000 to N10, 000 and a jute bag of onions, which previously cost N30, 000, now goes for N20, 000.

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A 25-litre of vegetable oil, which previously sold for N11,500, now cost N10,700, palm oil decreased from N11,000 to N10,300, while a measure of garri now cost N400.

However, the price of a 50 KG bag of rice ranged between N13, 500 to N17,000, depending on the brand while a measure of beans cost N1,500.

Mr Femi Odusanya, the spokesman for Mile 12 Market Traders Association, attributed the price drop to the ongoing harvest season for most of the produce.

“Over 20 per cent of the annual four million metric tonnes of tomatoes produced in the country is supplied to Mile 12 Market annually and redistributed to over 400 markets in Lagos and Ogun State and six ECOWAS countries.

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“About 200,000 metric tonnes of the 800,000 metric tonnes of tomatoes annually supplied to Mile 12 Market get wasted due to postharvest losses.

“Presently, the supply of the product is more than the demand because farmers commenced harvest in December and there would be a surplus in the market until April when the harvest season would end.

“That is why we have been advocating for increased investment in tomato processing plant to mop up the excess and reduce waste, create jobs and increase contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP),” Odusanya said.

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