‘Grasshoppers trade transformed my family’ — spotlighting women powering Borno’s flourishing insect industryAlong the Gubio road to Kasua fara, an open market where grasshoppers are traded in Borno state, is a military base —The facility speaks to the government’s commitment to the safety of residents; and for traders that daily ply the route, it serves as a crystal reminder of the monumental horrors the state has endured from the Boko Haram insurgency.
The business has grown and completely spread throughout the north-eastern state since its discovery over 50 years ago. “Everything is expensive and the income is not what it used to be. Oil is now expensive. A small jerrycan of oil is N35,000, while a big one is about N55,000.”Wazani, insisting that the market has crashed, said she earns between N20,000 and N30,000 weekly when business is good and gets about N10,000 weekly on bad days. She has also built a house and trained her children through school from the trade.
Peter, also one of the small-scale traders, said she mainly “takes care of herself” through the business, which she started in 2013.The trader, who rakes in N20,000 weekly, said the business is lucrative but lamented that players are sometimes disdained and disrespected because of the nature of the job.“You just have to be patient and concentrate on your business so that you can get what you want.
For Ibrahim, sufficiency began when she entered the industry five years ago, making huge supplies every two or three weeks depending on orders from clients.Speaking on profitability, the trader said she makes a modest income, enough to take care of her children, pay house rent, and do other things.
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