Tomato scarcity and the hike in price of perishable goods like garri and rice is beginning to Nigerians greatly. The prices of everything in markets have tripled and tomatoes especially has become really unaffordable.
“Its normally expensive but never this high,”
presenters Odunayo and Kayode visited the popular Mushin perishable market in Lagos to talk to traders and customers about how the hike in tomatoes have affected their business.
“A basket used to be N20,000 ($60)but it now costs N45,000 ($120),” complains one of the market women
But what has prompted the scarcity of a vegetable like tomatoes that should be available to Nigerians in abundance?
“Its because some rich people are buying them directly to produce tomato paste,” replies one tomatoes seller
Tomatoes is one vegetable Nigerians cannot do without. It is used to cook our favorite jollof rice, stew and many other foods we eat everyday. But due to the recent development, people are beginning to look for alternatives to cook like eating gravies instead of stew or coconut rice in place of jollof rice.
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