{"id":1064294,"date":"2022-04-22T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/22\/shortage-of-eggs-hit-kumasi-market\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T22:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T22:00:22","slug":"shortage-of-eggs-hit-kumasi-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/22\/shortage-of-eggs-hit-kumasi-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortage of eggs hit Kumasi market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Egg-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Eggs\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is a short supply of eggs in Kumasi, in the wake of a proposed 30 percent increase in prices of the nutritional commodity.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Wholesalers and retailers of eggs say getting supply from poultry farms has been hectic in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Poultry farmers are unable to meet demands because they have limited access and high cost of feed.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for eggs has shot up but supply is low, despite price hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Poultry farmers have announced prices will soon go up, but retailers and consumers say prices have already been increased.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Inadequate feeds and high cost of doing business are reasons for the hike in prices.<\/p>\n<p>A wholesaler, Cynthia Adjei, says they are compelled to pass no cost when poultry farmers increase prices.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, any price increase affects sales.<\/p>\n<p>Achiaa, an egg retailer, says it has been difficult getting eggs to buy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Bakers Association in Kumasi says\u00a0hikes in prices of eggs and other essential ingredients affect the price of bread.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"9eJUl_V3R6o\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If not for my talent, I would have been a Security Guard \u2013 Kwesi Arthur - Adom TV News (22-4-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9eJUl_V3R6o?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo There is a short supply of eggs in Kumasi, in the wake of a proposed 30 percent increase in prices of the nutritional commodity.\u00a0Wholesalers and retailers of eggs say getting supply from poultry farms has been hectic in recent days. Poultry farmers are unable to meet demands because they have limited access and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1064295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[6172,1327,2537,446,4797],"class_list":["post-1064294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-eggs","tag-hit","tag-kumasi","tag-market","tag-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}