{"id":187263,"date":"2016-02-05T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=187263"},"modified":"2016-02-05T10:44:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:44:37","slug":"price-of-tomato-declines-for-third-consecutive-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=187263","title":{"rendered":"Price of tomato declines for third consecutive time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The price of tomato reduced again this week, the third in a row.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The price dropped by twelve percent to close the week at 7 cedis 70 pesewas per medium size tomato tin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prices of cowpea, groundnut and maize followed with a percentage drop each.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;3FP3I7rQd4bL4HwwwK4TowOxOOzqp5MC&#8221;]This is the third time that the price of tomato has declined from about 15 percent since the third week in January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, checks by Esoko Ghana show that wheat gained 15 percent in price to close the week at 10 cedis 80 pesewas per medium sized tin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cassava, Yam, rice and millet also recorded gains in the prices for the first week in February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the various markets, a \u201cmedium size tomato tin\u201d full of tomatoes lost 33 percent in Kumasi to close the week at 5 cedis 80 pesewas; in Techiman, it dropped by 21 percent to close the week at 7 cedis 90 pesewas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, Tamale and Takoradi recorded 20 and 4 percent drop to sell at 7 cedis 20 pesewas and 10 cedis 80 pesewas respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, a medium size tin of maize gained by 4 percent in Bawku to close the week at 3 cedis and dropped by 8 percent in Kumasi to close the week at 4 cedis70 pesewas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prices however remained same in the other markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check blow for more:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187317 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/esoko-jan-5.png\" alt=\"esoko jan 5\" width=\"930\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credit: Esoko Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of tomato reduced again this week, the third in a row. The price dropped by twelve percent to close the week at 7 cedis 70 pesewas per medium size tomato tin. Prices of cowpea, groundnut and maize followed with a percentage drop each. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;3FP3I7rQd4bL4HwwwK4TowOxOOzqp5MC&#8221;]This is the third time that the price of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[32,171,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187263","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}