How price of garri soared by over 100% in Akwa Ibom despite investment
Nigeria, June 23 -- The price of garri, one of the most routinely consumed and dominant foods in Nigeria, has witnessed over a hundred per cent increase within the last three years in Akwa Ibom state.
Processed from cassava, the flakes can be consumed raw with water, sugar (and milk and groundnut by people with relatively greater means). It is also used to make eba, eaten in households and sold in restaurants all over the country.
But PREMIUM TIMES's findings showed that the used-to-be affordable even by the low income earners is now a luxury.
According to Nigeria's data bank, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), garri was sold at N150.18 for 1kg in Akwa Ibom State as at December 2018 but rose to N308.86 as of March 2021.
The NBS figu...
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