{"id":161836,"date":"2015-10-23T14:08:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=161836"},"modified":"2015-10-23T14:08:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:08:30","slug":"prices-of-foodstuff-drop-in-ghanaian-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/prices-of-foodstuff-drop-in-ghanaian-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Food prices drop in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Food prices have dropped further in week three of October this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The highest drop of 6 percent was made by Tomato which closed the week at an average price of GHS 8.40 per \u2018medium size tomato tin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;mrIy8klzaUCnQSspYlPQ7Rc7G5UlloRa&#8221;]This was followed by Cassava (fresh tubers) with 4 percent drop in price to close the week at GHS 3.40 per 3-4 tubers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Esoko Ghana, \u201cCowpea and Maize also followed with 2 percent drop each. Both closed the week at GHS 7.80 and 4.20 per olunka respectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Checks by Esoko Ghana further revealed that Groundnut dropped a percentage point to close at GHS 12.50 per olunka, Yam (pona) and Soybean gained 3 percent each to close the week at GHS 3.70 and 6.70 per \u201cmedium size tuber\u201d and per olunka respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They observed that Millet also gained 1 percent to close the week at 5.10 per olunka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile the other commodity prices remained the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Commodity prices in Acca<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the various markets, the price for an \u201colunka\u201d of maize lost by 10 percent in Accra to close the week at GHS 4.50 whilst in the other various markets remained the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Kumasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A \u201cmedium size tomato tin\u201d full of fresh tomatoes lost 20 percent in Kumasi to close the week at GHS 5.80 with Techiman also losing 8 percent to close at GHS 10.10 and also with Takoradi dropping 11 percent to close at GHS 14.40.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tamale<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The commodity however made a gain in Tamale. In Tamale, it gained 8 percent to close at GHS 4.70. In the other markets prices remained the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Commodity-Index_media_23rd-Oct_2015.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for details<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food prices have dropped further in week three of October this year. 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