 Nigerians are still groaning over the high prices of food stocks in the open market as the effect of inflation died harder. In this special report we take a cursory look at the issue of insecurity as it affects food production and inflation. Food security is an indispensable prerequisite for the survival of mankind and his economic activities included food production. Food is different from other commodities because of its inevitability for survival and existence. In Nigeria, there is high level of food insecurity for the past four decades as a result of neglect in production when oil has become the major export product. But recently, more especially with the coming of the COVID-19 which has exposed our weaknesses in terms of diversification of our economy, the need for us to look at some other sectors to boost the economy, agriculture has become a key sector that we should be looking at. The prices of foodstuff today leave much to be desired. From a recent survey, the prices of staples included in Gary, rice and beans have almost doubled in three months. As Baeslam meant, the trade has attributed the increment to diverse reasons. Back up, follow to this one, we are selling $57,000. $57,000? Yeah. And how much you sell alone? Alone, we are selling $42,000 a week, we are selling this one, it's like $47,000. I just buy like paint to it, I think before it was $1,500, $800, $3,000. The same can be said for vegetables. For tomatoes, although the price has reduced in recent weeks, these buyers say she bought for half the price months ago. For tubers and other wood crops, the prices have reduced considerably. While some traders say it is as a result of family activities, the chairman of the amount of market, Shea Hojibro, believes it is all a factor of the men in supply. We have collected this one, $3,300, but now we are selling $2,500. It keeps fluctuating because sometimes you can get it lower. Once it is right in the farm, we have no option not to bring it to the market and sell. Of course, when you bring it to the market, it also depends on the demand of the people who are sick in the market. Like if you come to the market, you have a lot of trucks that come with the same product you bring. You may not sell it as much expensive as you are expecting. Farming is only profitable when the result of it is food insecurity because every home, every family, everyone would want to have something to eat and be properly fed. The food inflation in Nigeria has seen food prices rise to double-digit figures while Nigerians earn less income. The rising cost of food is caused by many factors, but most notable among them is the incessant conflict for grazing space between farmers and herders, which has resulted in fewer farmers going to their farms and less food being produced. Recently, it was announced that 100,000 small-skilled rice farmers have been enlisted to benefit from the federal government's Angkor Barra scheme for the 2021 World Farm in Adamao state. The challenge of diversion of input still persists. We need to get to the roots of it by identifying the real farmers who must be guaranteed by the local traditional institution. We also have a non-person that will stand as a guarantor. And then most importantly, we also visit the farms. We deploy technology, we do job mapping and make sure that we identify the farms and such farms can be visualized at any time and see the progress there. The decline in the rate of increase in the consumer price index indicates that the inflation rate in Nigeria might have peaked and is on its way downward. However, it is still worth noting that an inflation rate of 17.75% is still way higher than the 11.02% recorded before the closure of the land borders in 2019. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.