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Food Price Report: List of states where rice, beans, yam, onion, garri, tomato, others are cheapest
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released its Selected Food Prices Watch report for April 2024 in Abuja on Friday.
NewsWireNGR has extracted the list of foods and the areas they are cheapest:
| Food (1kg) | State where it is the cheapest | State it is the most expensive |
| Local rice | Benue (N993.72) | Niger (N1,785.47) |
| White garri | Benue (494.47) | Bayelsa (N1,095.26) |
| Yellow garri | Benue (N569.76) | Abuja (N1,262.51) |
| Tomato | Zamfara (N547.22) | Delta (N1,851.19) |
| Brown beans | Yobe (N818.03) | Abuja (N2,288.36) |
| Yam tuber | Bauchi (N638.64) | Cross River (N1,797) |
| Onion bulb | Kano (N453.13) | Edo (N1,814.15) |
| Boneless beaf | Kebbi (N3,746.67) | Boneless beef |
| 1 loaf of sliced bread (500g) | Yobe (N707.95) | Rivers (N1,725.83) |
| Unsliced bread | Yobe (N697.97) | Bayelsa (N1,628.5) |
| 1 bottle of palm oil (1 litre) | Niger (N1,220.19) | Osun (2,403.24) |
| Wheat flour: prepacked (golden penny 2kg) | Borno (N1,302.88) | Cross River (N3,240) |
| 1 Agric egg (medium) | Bauchi (N124.67) | Ogun (N168.78) |
| Mackerel: frozen | Jigawa (N2,468.61) | Imo (N4,936.38) |
| Plantain (ripe) | Yobe (N560.81) | Cross River (N1,380.87) |
| Plantain (unripe) | Yobe (N470) | Ondo (1,729.57) |
| Titus: frozen | Nassarawa (N2,573.43) | Imo (4,847.71) |
| 1 bottle of vegetable oil | Yobe (N1,677) | Ondo (N2,835.93) |
| Evaporated tinned milk (peak), 170g | Plateau (N586.04) | Edo (N905) |
| Frozen chicken | Ondo (N3,800) | Enugu (7,007.56) |
| Broken rice (Ofada) | Zamfara (N987.28) | Ogun (N2,941.81) |
