Every tribe or culture has peculiarities, whether music, dress sense or food, that make them who they are. For the Nupes in Niger State, kulikuli, a popular snack made from groundnut, is one of such. In this report,looks at the longstanding tradition of making the crunchy food and the technological evolution easing the process of producing it in larger quantities.
The snack is so popular in the state so much that what a first timer in Bida, Mokwa, Jebba, Lapai, Agaie, Kutiugi, Lemu, Wushishi, Keterregi, Enagi, Ibbi, Bokani and even Minna, the state capital, notices while journeying to those towns, are young girls and sometimes women, hawking kulikuli on the highway and also at the motor park when they arrive their destination, before they experience anything else in all these places.
Many people who are known to produce kulikuli in large scale have acquired the helpful machine built with the capacity of extracting as much as 500 litres of groundnut oil per day which will translate into the production of large quantity of kulikuli. The machine is in two grades; one has an attached which is detachable and it costs about N70, 000. Then there is one which is more sophisticated and costs as high as N200, 000.
For Hajiya Lami Ali, one of the many women in the business in Minna, behind PZ at Kasuwan Gwari, she has been in the business for over 30-years now and it has been her only source of income from day one. “We sell a mudu of kulikuli for N400, a basin at N7, 000 and bag at N22, 000. Another woman in Kateregi in Katcha local government area of the state, Gogo Aliyu, said with the introduction of machines and other modern ways to even market kulikuli and groundnut oil, there is the need for government to assist women financially to remain competitive.
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