FLUCTUATIONS IN MARKET PRICES OF FOOD PRODUCTS PROMPTED BY THE ACTIVITIES OF BOKO HARAM INSURGENTS IN MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE, NIGERIA
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https://doi.org/10.33003/jaat.2025.1102.030Keywords:
Insurgency, Food Prices, Market, profits, MaiduguriAbstract
In the North-eastern part of the Nigeria, the Boko Haram insurgency has not only consumed an estimated 32 thousand people, mostly from the agrarian communities in Borno State but has also neutralized the 420,000 tons wheat production capacity of the state which is 30% of annual national consumption. In Borno, food crops are majorly produced by smallholder rural farmers, who faces challenges of capital, adequate knowledge and skills, security and infrastructure to sustained production of basic food crops. These challenges were compounded in Maiduguri by the emergence of Boko Haram insurgents that started since 2009. This has led to the increase of some market prices of food products and poor nutritional status of the residents of Maiduguri and its environs. The insurgents after sent out of Maiduguri in 2009, dwelled in neighbouring rural areas and displaced the rural settlements whose major occupation was farming. This study explored the impact of insurgency on market prices of food products in Maiduguri metropolis. Multistage and purposive sampling techniques were used to select the respondents for the study. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected using questionnaire and FGD. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency count and percentage. Whereas, the qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis. The study reveals a fold increase in some market prices of food products like maize, rice, millets among other and a decrease in prices in crops like wheat, cowpea among others. However, these fluctuations are attributed to only insurgency but other intervening variables like availability and consumption preferences of consumers, transportation cost, road infrastructure and proximity to the markets. The study recommends support and improved security for rural farming populace, subsidy by the government on some basic food crops like maize, rice, millets among others
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