On the various markets, the price for an \u201colonka\u201d of maize increased by 11 percent in Accra to close the week at GHc 5.00 and dropped by 3 percent in Kumasi to close the week at GHc 5.10, whilst in the other markets, the price remained the same.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile in Accra, a \u201cmedium size tomato tin\u201d full of fresh tomatoes dropped by 33 percent to close the week at GHc 10.20 with Bawku also losing 33 percent to close at GHc 5.40 and also with Kumasi and Takoradi dropping 2 and 17 percent to close the week at GHc 8.40 and GHc 11.30 respectively.<\/p>\n
The commodity in Tamale however gained 25 percent to close the week at GHc 9.00.<\/p>\n
Reason for the drop in commodity prices<\/strong><\/p>\n Market watchers have attributed the performance of the foodstuff in the last week of January to the fact that most of the commodities are getting rotten, so some traders reduced the prices to balance their investments.<\/p>\n For some markets too, traders have started bringing in tomatoes from the neighboring Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n Check below for details:<\/strong><\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Credit: Esoko Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The price of tomatoes has dropped further in the last week of January this year. It dropped by 12 percent to close the week at an average price of GHc8.70 per \u2018medium size tomato tin.\u201d Price of tomatoes dropped by 15% last week. Checks by Esoko Ghana show that price of Soya beans also dropped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"esoko](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/esoko-29.png\")
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