{"id":368529,"date":"2017-11-06T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=368529"},"modified":"2017-11-06T06:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T06:00:42","slug":"left-to-die-ghanas-onion-industry-close-to-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=368529","title":{"rendered":"Left to die: Ghana\u2019s Onion Industry close to extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s onion industry will soon be completely wiped out if challenges hampering its growth are not dealt with.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, the industry was a bustling one. But today, Ghana is forced to import onions from a number of African countries to feed homes and eateries across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the first of\u00a0<strong>Citi Business News<\/strong>\u2019 series dubbed \u201c<strong>LEFT TO DIE<\/strong>\u201d which looks at industries which previously were thriving but now are close to extinction and taken over by foreign players.<\/p>\n<p>We throw the spotlight on the onion industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below to listen to full audio report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/351537640&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jessica Ayorkor Aryee\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s onion industry will soon be completely wiped out if challenges hampering its growth are not dealt with. Ten years ago, the industry was a bustling one. But today, Ghana is forced to import onions from a number of African countries to feed homes and eateries across the country. In the first of\u00a0Citi Business News\u2019 [&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-368529","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\/368529","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=368529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}