Onion price jumps 900% to N300,000 in 6 months

Onion price jumps 900% to N300,000 in 6 months.

Onion price jumps 900% to N300,000 in 6 months By Cynthia Alo The price of a 120kg bag of onions jumped from N30,000 in April 2026, to about N300,000 in October representing a 900 percent increase in six months.

National Onion Producers, Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria (NOPPMAN) attributed the increase to inadequate storage facilities and fire outbreaks in warehouses in the North […] The post Onion price jumps 900% to N300,000 in 6 months appeared first on Vanguard News .

By Cynthia Alo The price of a 120kg bag of onions jumped from N30,000 in April 2026, to about N300,000 in October representing a 900 percent increase in six months.

A Vanguard AgroBiz market survey shows that the price of a big sack of fresh onions at Mile 12 Lagos international market is N300,000, while the dried one is between N350,000 to N380,000 as of last week. In an interview with Vanguard AgroBiz, the National President of NOPPMAN, Aliyu Isah, said the price surge was not necessarily due to inadequate national production, but rather the loss of a significant proportion of harvested onions before the next production season. “It’s not that we did not produce enough for the country, but we lost more than 51% from April to October,” he said. Isah attributed the losses to poor storage facilities, fires that destroyed onions in local storage centres and the disruption caused by unsuitable seeds introduced into Nigeria during the 2024–2025 growing season.

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