Dawanau Market Kano: Grain Prices Stabilise as Dry-Season Harvest Cycle Peaks

Market surveys at Dawanau Market — Nigeria's largest grain market, handling an estimated 500,000 metric tonnes of grains annually — show price stabilisation in the third week of March. A mudu of maize trades at ?1,200–?1,300, millet at ?1,000–?1,100, and beans at ?2,000–?2,200 per mudu, all down sharply from pre-harvest levels. A 100kg bag of white beans trades at ?90,000 — less than half the ?200,000 recorded a year ago. Grain merchants in Kano attribute the moderation to combined effects of bumper northern dry-season harvest, government import waivers and reduced purchasing power dampening urban demand. The low prices are helping southern processors and retailers build stock ahead of the anticipated post-Ramadan demand recovery.