{"id":205150,"date":"2016-04-08T06:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T06:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=205150"},"modified":"2016-04-08T06:30:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T06:30:25","slug":"tomato-prices-shoot-second-week-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=205150","title":{"rendered":"Tomato prices shoot up in second week of April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the second week in April, tomato recorded the highest gain in price.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is now selling at 7 cedis 20 pesewas per medium size tin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;FkojvZqQU4dCsoQeoYbvQkDIqd1couwB&#8221;]Yam followed with a 5 percent gain in price to close the week at 5 cedis 60 pesewas per medium size tuber.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Checks by Esoko Ghana also indicated that imported rice and millet gained 3 percent each to sell at 28 cedis 40 pesewas and 5 cedis 50 pesewas for a 5 kilogram bag and medium size tin respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fresh tubers of cassava however dropped 4 percent in price to close the week at 6 cedis 40 pesewas for three to four tubers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Esoko Ghana, a medium size tin of fresh tomatoes gained 17 percent in Takoradi to close the week at 12 cedis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At Techiman, the commodity gained 14 percent and it is selling at 4 cedis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The price of tomato also increased on the Kumasi and Tamale markets. It gained 4 and 2 percent to close the week at 5 cedis 40 pesewas and 3 cedis 10 pesewas respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the other markets, the price remained the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Esoko further stated that the price for a medium tin of maize increased on the various markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Accra, it increased by 3 percent to close the week at 5 cedis and also gained by 4 percent in Kumasi to close the week at 5 cedis 40 pesewas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While on the other markets, the price remained the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-205287 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/esoko-april-8.png\" alt=\"esoko april 8\" width=\"935\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Credit: Esoko Ghana Commodity Index<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second week in April, tomato recorded the highest gain in price. It is now selling at 7 cedis 20 pesewas per medium size tin. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;FkojvZqQU4dCsoQeoYbvQkDIqd1couwB&#8221;]Yam followed with a 5 percent gain in price to close the week at 5 cedis 60 pesewas per medium size tuber. Checks by Esoko Ghana also indicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":183833,"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-205150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205150","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=205150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}