ICYMI: Why food prices are rising, by farmers
[FILES] People buy and sell food at the Illaje market, in Bariga, Lagos, on June 29, 2021. – Since the start of the pandemic in 2019, food prices have risen by an average of more than 22%, according to official statistics, and feeding a family properly has become a daily challenge.
Other causes include multiple taxations on inter-state food transportation by federal, state, and local governments. Some farmers, who craved anonymity, told The Guardian that oftentimes, they have to bribe bandits and herdsmen in their locality to enable them to go to farm unhindered and to ensure cows don’t enter their farms.“The hike in food prices is not our making. At every level of production, we have to bribe bandits to have hitch-free farming and harvesting,” a farmer said.
The National President of All Farmers Progressive Association, Ogbo Joseph Douglas, lamented that foodstuff are going beyond the reach of the common man and even farmers cannot afford them, since they cannot produce all crops. He said while Federal Government is making efforts to cushion the hike in food price, those implementing it are sabotaging the effort, as they see it as free money for farmers.
He further explained that insecurity in the land has made many farmers flee and that many of them are currently in the Internally Displaced Camps, noting that the government has been paying lip service to the issue of insecurity, but until the menace is dealt with, the country must brace up for the worst food insecurity it has ever witnessed.
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