Vegetables
Vegetable pricing and market availability
Onions Jump 22% in Three Weeks
Onions rose to a mean of ₦1,260 per kg across Lagos in the fourth week of October 2026, up 22.33% from ₦1,030 three weeks earlier. …
Bauchi Tomato Basket Falls to ₦14,000
A basket of tomatoes now sells for ₦14,000 in Bauchi markets, down from ₦18,000, as a bumper wet-season harvest floods traders with supply. A bag …
Pepper Falls Again as Lagos Prices Ease
Tatashe fell 9.5% and rodo pepper 8.3% across Lagos in the week to 2 October 2026, their second straight weekly drop. Eleven of the 12 …
Lagos Market: Ten Falls, One Rise
Ten food price lines fell by 1% or more across Lagos in the week to 2 October 2026, and only one rose. Vegetables led the …
Vegetables Slide as Lagos Rice Edges Up
Every vegetable in the Lagos market survey got cheaper in the week to 25 September 2026. Rodo pepper fell 8.1%, tatashe 6.9%, tomatoes 4.6%, shombo …
Onion Bag Triples to ₦250,000 in Lagos
A bag of onions now sells for ₦150,000 to ₦250,000 at Oyingbo Market in Lagos, up from ₦50,000 to ₦70,000 in May, a rise of …
Tomatoes Tumble 60% in Kano
A bumper harvest has crashed vegetable prices in Kano, with a small basket of tomatoes falling 60% from ₦10,000 to ₦4,000 in two weeks. Traders …
Ewedu Grows Into a Cash Crop
The leafy green behind Nigeria's ewedu soup is fast becoming one of the country's most profitable small crops. It matures in weeks, sells year-round, and …
Lagos Vegetables Await A Price Line
Leafy vegetables are absent from the FoodPrices Lagos survey for the week of 14 August 2026. This explainer covers what Lagos farmers and traders told …
Flooding Reshapes Lagos Leafy Vegetable Supply
Leafy vegetables are not in the FoodPrices Lagos survey this week, so this piece carries no price. It explains why the 2026 rains inverted the …
Lagos Vegetables Retreat From June Peak
Four of six tracked vegetables fell in Lagos this week and two held flat. Tomatoes led at 7.2%, but the four-item stew base still costs …
Onions Unmoved Through Twelve Weeks of Tracking
Onions held at a mean ₦1,000 per kilogramme across all ten Lagos markets in the week to 14 August 2026, unchanged on the week. Across …
Tomatoes Fall 7.2% to ₦2,190 in Lagos
Tomatoes fell 7.2% to a mean ₦2,190 per kilogramme across all ten Lagos markets in the week to 14 August 2026. It is a fourth …
Lagos Vegetables Retreat From June, July Peaks
Tomatoes and all three pepper varieties fell again in the week to 14 August 2026, extending a retreat that began in late June. Four of …
Nigeria Grows Vegetables Without Soil
From insecure northern towns to Lagos rooftops, Nigerians are growing tomatoes, peppers and leafy greens without soil. Hydroponic and vertical farms use up to 90% …
Nigeria's Okra Rots Before It Sells
Okra is a fixture of Nigerian soups and one of West Africa's biggest crops, yet much of the harvest spoils before it reaches a paying …
A Pest Ravages Nigeria's Pepper Farms
Pepper, the fiery heart of nearly every Nigerian pot, has become one of the country's most volatile foods. A pest outbreak that wiped out farms …
A Tomato Paste Glut Seeks Buyers
China's Xinjiang region built a tomato paste empire, then watched European demand collapse over forced-labour concerns. Left with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of unsold …
Coconut Oil Stays Stubbornly Dear
Coconut oil prices nearly tripled in under two years and are easing only slightly in 2026. Ageing trees, slow replanting and competition from coconut milk …
Agege Market Beans Climb to N65,000 per Bag as February Baseline of N48,000 Gives Way
Beans (Drum) and Beans (Oloyin) both held at N48,000 per 50kg bag through February at Agege Market before climbing to N65,000 by the week of …