{"id":1083491,"date":"2022-05-11T09:07:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T09:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/11\/burkina-faso-cant-determine-prices-of-tomatoes-for-us-samini-backs-dumelo\/"},"modified":"2022-05-11T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T09:07:06","slug":"burkina-faso-cant-determine-prices-of-tomatoes-for-us-samini-backs-dumelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/11\/burkina-faso-cant-determine-prices-of-tomatoes-for-us-samini-backs-dumelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso can&#8217;t determine prices of tomatoes for us \u2013 Samini backs Dumelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"529\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Samini-and-John-Dumelo-696x529.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Samini and John Dumelo\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File Photo: L-R: Samini and John Dumelo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dancehall musician, Samini has backed actor, John Dumelo who has charged government to invest in tomato production.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that, until government takes a decision, neighbouring countries will continue to determine the price. <\/p>\n<p><em>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<\/em>\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>John Dumelo said the only solution is for Ghana to grow our own tomatoes to meet market demands.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><em>Solution: Grow our own tomatoes using irrigation from Sept through to April each year. Thanks, <\/em>he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A day after putting out the tweet, dancehall musician, Samini, who is also a farmer, agreed with Mr. Dumelo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out the tweet below: <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p><strong>MORE: <\/strong><\/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=\"KTZNa1I-ucM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Transport Fare Increment Yet To Take Effect In Kumasi - Adom TV News (10-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KTZNa1I-ucM?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: L-R: Samini and John Dumelo Dancehall musician, Samini has backed actor, John Dumelo who has charged government to invest in tomato production. He argued that, until government takes a decision, neighbouring countries will continue to determine the price. High prices of tomatoes, Reasons: We buy from Burkina and they determine prices for us. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3062,978,6608,2577,979,601,7652,2579],"class_list":["post-1083491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-backs","tag-burkina","tag-determine","tag-dumelo","tag-faso","tag-prices","tag-samini","tag-tomatoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083491","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=1083491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}