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“These people have been extorting money from farmers from the local to the urban markets, and the end users of the commodity are the ones who pay for it.”<\/p>\n
He urged the federal and state governments to eliminate some produce taxes at the local council level.<\/p>\n
“The cost of farming, harvesting, produce tax, and collection from security agents at checkpoints is what drives up commodity prices.”<\/p>\n
“A good road network should not be overlooked because it helps farmers transport their produce to markets,” he says.<\/p>\n
According to Eze, the country must establish preservative centers to ensure the efficacy of perishable goods.<\/p>\n
“There is a Modern Solar Power Preservative Mechanism that can be built at Local Councils or cluster areas near farmers,”.<\/p>\n
Eze lamented the impact of the sit-at-home project on farm markets and the region’s economy in the South East.<\/p>\n
“It has an impact on farmers because they always harvest their produce on the weekend with the intention of taking it to markets on Monday.”<\/p>\n
“Losing Mondays, which is the start of activities in the south east, has an economic impact on people’s lives,” Eze stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mr Romanus Eze, Chairman of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) Enugu Chapter, has attributed the rise in food prices to heavy taxation and a lack of preservative centers in the country. On Wednesday, Eze told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu that farmers in states faced challenges with both legal and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[305,303,307,304,306],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-national","tag-afan","tag-food","tag-inadequate-preservation","tag-price-hike","tag-tax"],"yoast_head":"\n