{"id":1082567,"date":"2022-05-10T13:38:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/burkina-faso-determines-prices-of-tomatoes-in-ghana-john-dumelo-reveals\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T13:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:38:44","slug":"burkina-faso-determines-prices-of-tomatoes-in-ghana-john-dumelo-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/10\/burkina-faso-determines-prices-of-tomatoes-in-ghana-john-dumelo-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso Determines Prices of Tomatoes In Ghana \u2013 John Dumelo Reveals |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghanaian actor, politician, and farmer, John Dumelo has listed reasons for the 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 a neighboring country, Burkina Faso as the country (Burkina Faso) determine prices for Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Also, it is risky to drive into Burkina Faso because of highway robbers. John Dumelo added that the exchange rate of CFA to Ghana\u2019s cedi is another factor.<\/p>\n<p>Suggesting a solution, John Dumelo said Ghana should grow its own tomatoes using an irrigation system from September through to April every year.<\/p>\n<p>He writes;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cHigh 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\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Eugene Osafo-Nkansah\/ <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\"><\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian actor, politician, and farmer, John Dumelo has listed reasons for the high prices of tomatoes in Ghana. John Dumelo explained in a post sighted on Twitter. According to his first reason, Ghana import tomatoes from a neighboring country, Burkina Faso as the country (Burkina Faso) determine prices for Ghana. Also, it is risky to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1082569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[978,12838,2577,979,85,678,601,51,2579],"class_list":["post-1082567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-burkina","tag-determines","tag-dumelo","tag-faso","tag-ghana","tag-john","tag-prices","tag-reveals","tag-tomatoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082567","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=1082567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}