The price of beans in Nigeria depends on the quantity you’re buying and the location. Beans is sold per kg, and in cups. Beans are packaged in bags of 50kg, 100kg, 25kg bags. Oloyin or honey beans is one of the best types of beans available in Nigeria. White beans tends to be more expensive than brown beans but honey beans is the most expensive beans.
Beans is a popular legume food in Nigeria that can be cooked as itself or be made into moi-moi or bean cake (akara). Beans comes in many variety and colours.
Beans can be processed dried or canned. Beans contains protein. Beans is sold in bags or can be measured in small quantities like paints, and cups. Beans is produced in large quantities in Nigeria by various state. Beans can be bought from any market near you where foodstuffs are sold.
Beans Production and Processing.
Beans is a legume crop. Beans are grown in well lit field and in an arid or moist soil. Beans fall into three types
- The beans plant consumed with the pod.
- The beans plant consumed while young.
- The beans plant consumed when matured.
Beans is best grown in clay or loamy soil and enough sunlight. To successfully grow beans it does not necessarily need extra maintenance. All that is needed is pest and disease control, adequate fertilizer, and weed prevention. Beans takes 45 to 75 days to grow.
The three types of beans are best harvested by hands or a mixed harvester. Beans can be processed by canning or by leaving them dry. To process beans either canned or dried, you dry clean the beans. For canned beans, you soak them destone them and then get them ready for packaging in cans.
Top Beans Producing States in Nigeria
Beans is a widely eaten food in Africa especially Nigeria. It is another popular food after rice and cassava. Beans is cultivated or produced in the northern part of Nigeria. Some of the beans producing states in Nigeria are:
- Kano state: This is a state in the northern part of Nigeria. Kano state is one of the highest beans producing state in Nigeria. They produce the highest quantity of beans.
- Borno state: This is another state that produces beans in large quantity in Nigeria. They are part of the state with the highest beans Production.
- Gombe state: This is another state that produce beans in high quantity in Nigeria.
- Sokoto state: This is another northern state that produces beans in large quantities in Nigeria.
- Yobe state: This is another northern state in Nigeria that produces beans in large quantities. It is one the highest beans producing state in Nigeria.
Brown Beans vs white beans
- The price of white beans is higher than that of brown beans
- White beans cooks faster than brown beans
- White beans contains more iron than brown beans
- Except Oloyin which is also a brown beans, white beans tends to be more delicious than other types of brown beans
Price of Beans in Nigeria per Kg
In Nigeria today, the price of rice is less expensive than the price beans. Beans is another staple food in Nigeria after yam, cassava and rice. It is a legume crop that is very nutritious. It is also a high source of protein. The price of beans per kg or bag depends on transportation, location, color and measurements. The average price of 100kg bag of beans per kg in Nigeria as at February 2025, is ₦180,000, while the average price of 50kg bag of beans is ₦90,000. There are 26 paints rubber in a 100kg bag of beans.
- 1 cup of beans: ₦400
- A derica of honey beans: ₦1,500
- A paint rubber of beans: ₦6,500
- Drum beans: ₦45,000 (25kg Bag)
- Moimoi/Akara beans: ₦160,000 (100kg Bag)
- Brown beans: ₦95,000 (50kg Bag)
- Iron beans: ₦95,000 (50kg Bag)
- Patasko Beans: ₦155,000 (100kg Bag)
- Lima beans: ₦105,000 (100kg Bag)
- Oloka beans: ₦175,000 (100kg Bag)
- Oloyin Niger: ₦90,000 (50kg Bag)
- Oloyin maiduguri: ₦190,000 (100kg Bag)
- Honey beans: ₦185,000 (100kg Bag)
- Butter beans: ₦185,000 (100kg Bag)
Oloyin/ Honey Beans
This is a specie of beans is Nigeria that is light brown in color. When cooked the taste is very delicious. It takes longer time to cook but is very delicious. It can be used to cook moi-moi or bean cake (akara). The taste alone is what makes many people to always buy it.
Mathew
