Planting Band · Market Season 2026
Food prices, recorded plainly, against the shape of the season
Velantis follows commodity prices, production figures, and the people who grow them, across Nigeria's states and through the full arc of the farming year.
36
States & FCT Covered
40+
Commodities Tracked
6
Growing Seasons Recorded
1,200+
Market Records Logged
Growing Band · What We Do
A ledger for the food economy, kept in the open
We collect prices at the market, not from a spreadsheet handed down. Each figure carries a record card naming where it was taken, when, and by whom, so a trader in Kano and a researcher in Lagos are reading the same page.
- Prices sourced directly from market visits, not aggregated feeds
- Smallholder interviews conducted with informed consent, always noted
- Production and storage figures drawn from named published sources
Harvest Band · Services
Three ways to read the market
Market Price Access
Recorded prices by commodity and state, with seasonal comparisons and CSV downloads.
Learn more →Food Systems Analysis
Multi-year series, sourced production figures, and a quarterly written review.
Learn more →Agricultural Reporting Course
Three weeks on recording prices, interviewing smallholders, and writing responsibly.
Learn more →Market Band · Featured Reports
Recent field notes
Market Records
What a Season of Yam Prices in Benue Actually Shows
A look at how tuber prices moved from planting through the lean months, and what the record cards reveal.
Storage & Supply
Why Maize Storage Losses Are Harder to Count Than They Sound
Published storage figures rarely agree. We trace where the gaps come from and what farmers say instead.
Smallholder Accounts
Three Farmers, One Dry Spell: Talking Through Consent First
Interviews recorded with clear consent, presented in the growers' own words wherever we could keep them.
Our Approach
Reporting that respects the calendar and the people in it
- Every price traces back to a named market and date
- We state known gaps in the data instead of smoothing over them
- Farmer accounts are shared only with clear, recorded consent
A market ledger is only useful if you can reach it
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What our readers tell us
"The record cards changed how our cooperative reads the market page. We finally know which figure to trust."
Ijeoma Nwafor
Cooperative Secretary, Enugu
"I use the seasonal comparison strip every quarter. It's the clearest view of maize I've found for the state."
Yakubu Danladi
Grain Trader, Kaduna
"The reporting course taught our newsroom to ask before we quote a farmer, not after. Overdue and well built."
Chidinma Okoro
Editor, Regional Desk
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