Prices of onions and tomatoes witness sharp increase in Sunyani Prices of onions and tomatoes witness sharp increase in Sunyani

Gloria Sarpong/ Eugene Ohemeng

Sunyani, Jan. 18, GNA – Prices of some vegetables have witnessed sharp increment in the Nana Bosoma Central and other satellite markets in the Sunyani Municipality, after the Christmas and New Year break.

A Ghana News Agency (GNA) market survey revealed that scarcity of onions and tomatoes had informed the unexpected price changes on the vegetables in the Brong-Ahafo Regional capital.

Madam Ama Serwaa, the Queen mother of the Sunyani market tomato sellers said due to the lack of domestic supply of onions and tomatoes, the traders imported the vegetables from neighbouring Burkina Faso.

She expressed concern about high import duties, adding because of that a box of tomatoes which sold at GHC600 is going for GHC800 while that of onion which was previously sold at GHC350 was selling at GHC600.

Madam Serwaa regretted that because of lack of storage facilities, quantities of tomatoes and onions and other vegetables got wasted during major seasons, and called on the government to provide storages facilities to store the vegetables during bumper harvest.

Prices of other vegetables such as carrot, cabbage and green pepper were however stable, when the GNA visited the markets.

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