{"id":10561,"date":"2020-09-18T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndarason.com\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2022-11-15T10:53:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:53:17","slug":"prices-covid19-boko-haram-food-security-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/prices-covid19-boko-haram-food-security-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Prices Dropping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 2 months now that Nigerians have been experiencing high cost in living which was triggered by hike in food items, fuel pump price, COVID-19, insecurity and electricity tariff.<\/p>\n<p>With regards to the hike in food price, many farmers were killed by Boko Haram insurgents which has threatened food security in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The fear of attack means most people cannot access their farmlands like before.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Ndarason International reporter in Maiduguri visited Muna market the biggest foodstuff market in Maiduguri to observe the situation as the price of foodstuffs gradually starts dropping.<\/p>\n<p>According to traders, the prices of food items like maize, millet, beans has dropped, but for rice, the price remains the same.<\/p>\n<p>Another trader, who sells beans and is also an IDP,\u00a0\u00a0 said that last week a plate of beans cost 350 naira and now costs 300 naira, and a bag of beans which was sold at 10,000 naira now sell at 8,000 naira.<\/p>\n<p>Modu Tela is a buyers who expressed happiness over the recent developments adding that he is optimistic that the prices will crash soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food prices predicted to crash soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":10563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farming-and-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26993,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions\/26993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}