The price of garri, a staple food consumed mainly by low-income Nigerians, has gone up by 37percent in the last one month owing to farmers’ reluctance to cultivate cassava in large quantities due to glut, farmers told BusinessDay.
BusinessDay survey at Mile 12 market shows that a 60kg of red ga
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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi
Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues.
She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.
