NIGER Price Bulletin December 2011
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year.
Millet, maize, cowpea, and imported rice are the most important food commodities. Millet is consumed by both rural and poor urban households throughout the country. Maize and imported rice are most important for urban households, while cowpea is mainly consumed by poor households in rural and urban areas as a protein source. Niamey is the most important national market and an international trade center, and also supplies urban households. Tillaberi is also an urban center that supplies the surrounding area. Gaya market represents a main urban market for maize with cross- border connections. Maradi, Tounfafi, and Diffa are regional assembly and cross-border markets for Niger and other countries in the region. These are markets where households and herders coming from the northern cereal deficit areas regularly buy their food. Agadez and Zinder are also important national and regional markets. Nguigmi and Abalak are located in pastoral areas, where people are heavily dependent on cereal markets for their food supply. They are particularly important during the rainy season, when herders are confined to the pastoral zone.
Maize: Nominal assembly prices in Gaya Maize: Nominal wholesale prices in Maradi 500 500
400 400
300 300
XOF/kg XOF/kg 200 XOF/kg 200
100 100
0 0 OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12 5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12
Maize: Nominal retail prices in Tounfafi Maize: Nominal retail prices in Niamey 500 500
400 400
300 300
XOF/kg XOF/kg 200 XOF/kg 200
100 100
0 0 OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12 5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12
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Maize: Nominal assembly prices in Diffa Cowpea: Nominal assembly prices in Sabon Machi 500 600
400 450
300 300 XOF/kg XOF/kg 200 XOF/kg
100 150
0 0 OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12 5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12
Cowpea: Nominal assembly prices in Tounfafi Cowpea: Nominal assembly prices in Bakin Birji 600 600
450 450
300 300 XOF/kg XOF/kg XOF/kg
150 150
0 0 OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12 5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12
Cowpea: Nominal assembly prices in Diffa Millet: Nominal retail prices in In Gall 600 600
450 450
300 300 XOF/kg XOF/kg XOF/kg XOF/kg
150 150
0 0 OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12 5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12
Millet: Nominal retail prices in Abalak Millet: Nominal retail prices in Ouallam 600 600
450 450
300 300 XOF/kg XOF/kg XOF/kg
150 150
0 0 OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12 5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12
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Millet: Nominal retail prices in Maradi Millet: Nominal retail prices in Nguigmi 600 600
450 450
300 300 XOF/kg XOF/kg XOF/kg
150 150
0 0 OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12 5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12
Millet: Nominal retail prices in Niamey Rice (imported): Nominal retail prices in Tillabery 600 800
450 600
300 400 XOF/kg XOF/kg XOF/kg
150 200
0 0 OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12 5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12
Rice (imported): Nominal retail prices in Niamey Rice (imported): Nominal retail prices in Zinder 800 800
600 600
400 400 XOF/kg XOF/kg XOF/kg
200 200
0 0 OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12 5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12
Rice (imported): Nominal retail prices in Maradi Rice (imported): Nominal retail prices in Agadez 800 800
600 600
400 400 XOF/kg XOF/kg XOF/kg
200 200
0 0 OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP
5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12 5-year average 2006/07-2010/11 Previous year 2010/11 Current year 2011/12
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