Nigeria goes into large Scale production of Onion

Production of onion in Nigeria as shifted from subsistent to large scale with Sokoto emerging as the largest producing state in Nigeria with a production of 1.4 million metric tonnes from April to August of 2020.
With new yielding varieties, producers are not focused on scaling production for export as countries like Niger, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire depend on Nigeria for their supply of onions.
The pandemic and recent flood that have affected investment into the onion value chain did not stop production.