President Muhammadu Buhari, on March 29, ordered a total lockdown of Lagos, FCT and Ogun, and exempted food processing, distribution and retail companies.
However, the reality was different for Lagos farmers who deal with daily production and sales.Sirajudeen AbdulAzeez, a farm manager at a crop farm in Epe, narrated to PREMIUM TIMES how the coronavirus lockdown impacted on the production and sales of leafy vegetables, which is highly perishable.
“The cost of production and transportation to the market is N250 per kg while during this lockdown, it is N400 per kg. “I lost half of my vegetable farm. They got dried up while still on the field as they have gone past the stage of harvesting. I cannot increase the price of my produce because we rarely have buyers coming for it due to the no-movement policy and even the few that come around complain of police harassment and low market.
“At this time, it is hard to get a crate of egg sold at N600, we have to peg our price to N500 and we still struggle to sell 30 crates of egg per day, while we sell an average 150 crates per day at N850 before the lockdown. We are experiencing egg loss,” he said. A similar experience was shared by Daniel Obinna, who also manages a poultry farm at the farm estate in Ikorodu.
“I resulted to reducing the price of the egg so as to get it disposed and I can’t reduce the ration of feeds given to them, … it will later have effect on them on the long run.”Abiodun Damilola said his loss has been coming from middlemen who come to buy catfish from his farm as they forced the price downward.
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