{"id":1081811,"date":"2022-05-09T21:14:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T21:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/09\/john-dumelo-states-reasons-for-high-prices-of-tomatoes-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2022-05-09T21:14:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T21:14:24","slug":"john-dumelo-states-reasons-for-high-prices-of-tomatoes-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/09\/john-dumelo-states-reasons-for-high-prices-of-tomatoes-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"John Dumelo States Reasons For High Prices Of Tomatoes In Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/d7ffba802d6b4d159dd5781cdee88324\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian actor, politician and farmer, John Dumelo has listed reasons for high prices of tomatoes in Ghana. <\/p>\n<p>John Dumelo explained in a post sighted on Twitter. <\/p>\n<p>According to his first reason, Ghana import tomatoes from neiboring country, Burkina Faso as the country (Burkina Faso) determine prices for Ghana. <\/p>\n<p>Also, <span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">It is risky driving into Burkina Faso because of highway robbers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">John Dumelo added that the exchange rate of CFA to Ghana&#8217;s cedi is another factor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Suggesting a solution, he said Ghana should grow its own tomatoes using irrigation system from September through to April every year. <\/p>\n<p>He writes; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;High prices of tomatoes, Reasons: We buy from Burkina and they determine prices for us. 2. It\u2019s risky driving into Burkina because of highway robbers. 3. Exchange rate CFA- Cedi. Solution: Grow our own tomatoes using irrigation\u00a0from Sept through to April each year. Thanks&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">Well, the solution by John Dumelo can help reduce the crying of most Ghanaians on prices of tomatoes on the market. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Screenshot below: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/a2633b800d3547ec8167bca8527949c8\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Naycha (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBurkina Faso<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nGhanaian<br \/>\nJohn Dumelo<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian actor, politician and farmer, John Dumelo has listed reasons for high prices of tomatoes in Ghana. John Dumelo explained in a post sighted on Twitter. According to his first reason, Ghana import tomatoes from neiboring country, Burkina Faso as the country (Burkina Faso) determine prices for Ghana. Also, It is risky driving into Burkina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2577,85,2158,678,601,830,2677,2579],"class_list":["post-1081811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-dumelo","tag-ghana","tag-high","tag-john","tag-prices","tag-reasons","tag-states","tag-tomatoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081811","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=1081811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}