Some onion farmers and marketers in Kano State are lamenting over the effect of the blockade of food items to the southern part of the country.
To protest the recent attacks on traders in some South West States, the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) had embarked on a strike.
This led to increase in price of food commodities in the south but in the north, the prices are plummeting.
Daily Trust had visited Gun-Dutse Onion Market in Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area of Kano State On Tuesday to assess the effect of the strike on traders in the market.
According to the media, some of traders said before the protest, they usually transport a minimum of 20 trucks to the southern part of the country on a daily basis but the strike has affected them badly
The largest bag of onion, which sold at N35,000 few weeks ago and as high as N70,000 during the onion scarcity last year, is now being sold for N7,000.
Meanwhile, National Pivot had reported earlier that farmers and traders in the Northern region have been crying as they have no market across the country and their goods are spoiling fast.
"Most of our perishable foodstuff have spoiled because even the countries that we are moving the goods to have the items", traders complained
"So, what happens is that when we get there, they won't buy most of the foodstuff till we will just dash them or dump them there."
"We need stop this blockage and see ourselves as one. There is no difference between an Igbo man, Hausa, Yoruba and Fulani if we our leaders can unite us" they concluded.