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Respondents to the survey said several challenges affected production in factories, one of which is the outbreak of COVID-19, thus reducing supply, while demand kept increasing.
Some of the respondents also condemned the activities of middlemen, saying such people, as always, capitalised on the development to further worsen the situation.
They called on government to intervene by checking the unwholesome activities of some dealers and middlemen.
Others, however, blamed the hike on high cost of transportation and other sundry activities associated with the business of procurement and sales of cement in the country.
Malam Ibrahim Sanusi, a cement dealer at the Gombe main market, described the hike as “outrageous” when compared with the price of same commodity the previous year.