Nigeria: Katsina farmers make fortune from cabbage production

Irrigation farmers in Katsina State have made unprecedented revenues from cabbage production due to its high market demand in the state and beyond. Many of the farmers did not envision the prospect of the crop. According to them, they just planted it to mitigate the high cost of production associated with tomato, Irish potato, onion or wheat Abdullahi Garba, a farmer in Danja, said that for the past five years, he produced only tomato in two local government areas, but this year, he chose to cut cost by producing cabbage. “For the past five years, I rented farms in Malumfashi and Kafur, in addition to what I have here in Danja, to produce tomato because of the high cost of fertiliser, pesticides and fuel. I decided to go for cabbage this year; and God being very kind, it yielded profit like never before,” he said. Garba further said the best a farmer could sell a bag of cabbage last year was N6,000, but this year, he sold the same bag at N12,000. “The crop requires watering at an ...