{"id":22647,"date":"2025-06-16T09:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=22647"},"modified":"2025-06-16T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:35:09","slug":"tomato-prices-in-nigeria-to-normalize-past-sallah-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/06\/16\/tomato-prices-in-nigeria-to-normalize-past-sallah-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomato prices in Nigeria to normalize past Sallah celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Currently high\u00a0tomato prices<\/u><\/a>\u00a0might normalize after the June 6-9, 2025 Sallah celebrations, amid falling yields in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Rabiu Zuntu, chair of the Kaduna branch of the Tomatoes Growers and Processors Association of Nigeria (TOPAN), prices could reduce this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TOPAN\u2019s Kaduna branch had earlier linked the costliness to the three-day Muslim holiday and\u00a0low production<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robust demand through intermediate festivities including Easter in April and Eid al-Adha (Sallah) in June had reinforced the surge.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doubled Prices<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On June 9, traders in the capital Abuja were selling a basketful of tomatoes from\u00a090,000 to 100,000 naira<\/u><\/a>\u00a0($58.14-64.60).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In normal times, a basket of the kitchen staple costs below 50,000 naira ($32.30), meaning the reigning prices have doubled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although tomatoes have grown dear in Nigeria most of 2025, their current price strength oversets expectations of a mid-year reprieve.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such a reduction would be possible in the absence of inflation, which had\u00a0elevated tomato prices<\/u><\/a>\u00a0at a near-similar period in July 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides, customers speculate that the currently doubled rates are seasonal outcomes of the ongoing planting season. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

50% Post-harvest Losses<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

While consumers blame seasonality, others are pointing a finger at post-harvest losses for the meteoric market rates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, stakeholders attending a recent Cold Chain in Agriculture Roundtable 2025 in Lagos noted how Nigeria loses 50%<\/u><\/a> of crop harvests, annually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lagos conference highlighted technologies that are trying to meet smallholder storage problems such as mobile cold rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is such technologies that can help Nigeria reduce losses and cut a related dependence on tomato paste imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What remains next is how farmers will mitigate low production to alleviate future elevations of tomato pricing. The statistics below offer the bigger picture by exploring production in the context of prices and consumption.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria Tomato Prices, Production and Consumption Statistics<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria is the\u00a014th<\/sup><\/u><\/a>\u00a0biggest tomato producer worldwide and the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0in Africa, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).\u00a0Although annual production has been upping in the five-year period ending 2023, the country has ironically been importing huge tomato paste volumes. In consumption, Nigeria was utilizing over 1.6 million tonnes of tomatoes before 2012, ranking 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0in Africa after Egypt. With such appetite, prices change seasonally, with the country having the\u00a069th<\/sup>\u00a0<\/u><\/a>highest tomato rates worldwide, as of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a glimpse of the modest annual rise in domestic tomato production in the 2019-23 period, courtesy FAOSTAT<\/u><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/strong><\/td>Production [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>3,803,598<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>3,600,784<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>3,477,981<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>3,390,170<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>3,102,960<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Fig 1. Tomato production Nigeria, 2019-2023.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Have tomato yields in Nigeria kept up with production<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even as Nigeria\u2019s tomato production has been improving marginally in the 2019-23 period, productivity has been downsizing. While 2020 peaked at approximately 3,950 kg per hectare<\/u><\/a> (ha), by 2023 the value had reduced to about 3,470\/ha. The table below, interpreted from FAOSTAT, gives a fuller survey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Year<\/strong><\/td>Yield [t\/ha]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>3.47<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>3.61<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>3.75<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>3.95<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>3.44<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Fig 2. Tomato yield rates Nigeria, 2019-2023.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How much tomatoes do people in Nigeria eat per year<\/strong>?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2006-2012 timeline, Nigeria annually ranked the 14th<\/sup>\u00a0biggest tomato-consuming nation. Domestic consumption in 2012 hit\u00a01.69 million tonnes.<\/u><\/a>\u00a0This is even as Egypt led Africa\u2019s consumption at 7.24 million tonnes, according to the Helgi Library,.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How high are tomato prices in Nigeria from a world perspective<\/strong>? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to price aggregator, Numbeo, Nigeria sells 1 kg of tomatoes at retail markets for an average\u00a0$1.84<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(2025). This puts the country\u2019s tomatoes the 69th<\/sup>\u00a0costliest worldwide and 3rd in Africa after those of nearby Ghana and Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Currently high\u00a0tomato prices\u00a0might normalize after the June 6-9, 2025 Sallah celebrations, amid falling yields in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria. According to Rabiu Zuntu, chair of the Kaduna branch of the Tomatoes Growers and Processors Association of Nigeria (TOPAN), prices could reduce this week.  TOPAN\u2019s Kaduna branch had earlier linked the costliness to the three-day Muslim holiday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nTomato prices in Nigeria to normalize past Sallah celebrations - Selina Wamucii | Food & Agriculture News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/06\/16\/tomato-prices-in-nigeria-to-normalize-past-sallah-celebrations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tomato prices in Nigeria to normalize past Sallah celebrations - Selina Wamucii | Food & Agriculture News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Currently high\u00a0tomato prices\u00a0might normalize after the June 6-9, 2025 Sallah celebrations, amid falling yields in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria. 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