{"id":182036,"date":"2016-01-15T17:08:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=182036"},"modified":"2016-01-15T17:08:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T17:08:26","slug":"tomato-prices-shoot-up-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=182036","title":{"rendered":"Tomato prices shoot up in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"

The price of tomatoes have increased in Ghanaian markets in the second week of January, 2016.<\/p>\n

It increased by 4 percent. Currently a ‘medium size tomato tin’ is being sold at GHc11.68.<\/p>\n

Another commodity which also increased is Yam (Pona) and is being sold in the market at GHc 4.50 \u201cper medium size tuber.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cowpea, Groundnut and Soya beans also followed with a percentage point gain each to close the week at GHc 7.70, GHc 12.90 and GHc 5.60 per olonka respectively.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, checks by Esoko Ghana<\/strong> revealed that Cassava (fresh tubers) dropped by 2 percent to close the week at GHc 5.30 per \u201c3-4 tubers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cassava (Gari) and Rice (imported \u2013unclesam) also dropped by a percentage point each to close the week at GHc 4.50 and GHc 28.90 per \u201colonka\u201d and \u201c1 small bag (5kg)\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n

The price for an \u201colonka\u201d of maize on the various markets remained the same.<\/p>\n

A \u201cmedium size tomato tin\u201d full of fresh tomatoes gained 17 percent in Kumasi to close the week at GHS 8.90 with Techiman gaining 5 percent to close at GHS 7.00 and also with Takoradi gaining 9 percent to close the week at GHS 21.60 and in Accra it dropped by 3 percentage points to close the week at GHS 19.80.<\/p>\n

In the other markets, the price remained the same.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Esoko Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The price of tomatoes have increased in Ghanaian markets in the second week of January, 2016. It increased by 4 percent. Currently a ‘medium size tomato tin’ is being sold at GHc11.68. Another commodity which also increased is Yam (Pona) and is being sold in the market at GHc 4.50 \u201cper medium size tuber.\u201d Cowpea, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}