{"id":215870,"date":"2016-05-21T07:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T07:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215870"},"modified":"2016-05-21T07:13:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T07:13:15","slug":"gari-price-goes-up-rice-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215870","title":{"rendered":"Gari price goes up, rice drops"},"content":{"rendered":"

The price of gari, a product made from cassava, has increased in the Ghanaian market by 16 percent.<\/p>\n

The product is currently being sold at GHc6.20 per olonka [the container used n measuring the product].<\/p>\n

The increase in the price of gari is believed to have been caused by the consistent increase in the price of cassava in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

Checks by Esoko Ghana revealed that the price of tomato has gone up by 3 percent in the third week of May and is being sold at GHc13.40 per medium size tomato tin.<\/p>\n

Soybeans also recorded a 2 percent increase to close the week at GHc 6.10 per \u201colonka.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Esoko Ghana, prices of groundnut and millet also increased by a percentage point each.<\/p>\n

They closed the week at GHc 13.90 and GHc5.50 per \u201colonka\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n

With rice (local) and Yam (pona), they both recorded 5 percent drop in their prices.<\/p>\n

They closed the week at GHc 7.60 and GHc6.40 per \u201colonka\u201d and \u201cmedium size tuber\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n

Cassava (fresh) and Cowpea also dropped by percentage point each.<\/p>\n

They both closed the week at GHc 7.60 and GHc9.00 per \u201c3-4 tubers\u201d and \u201colonka\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n

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

Takoradi<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Takoradi in the Western Region, a \u201cmedium size tomato tin\u201d full of fresh tomatoes went up by 9 percent in Takoradi to close the week at GHc 25.00 with Kumasi also gaining 3 percent to close the week at GHc 20.00.<\/p>\n

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

Check below for details:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"esoko<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

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

The price of gari, a product made from cassava, has increased in the Ghanaian market by 16 percent. The product is currently being sold at GHc6.20 per olonka [the container used n measuring the product]. The increase in the price of gari is believed to have been caused by the consistent increase in the price […]<\/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-215870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215870","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=215870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}