{"id":1221813,"date":"2022-10-11T19:46:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/mixed-reports-on-commodity-prices\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T19:46:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:46:52","slug":"mixed-reports-on-commodity-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/mixed-reports-on-commodity-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed reports on commodity prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>GENERALLY, a mixed result is seen in price changes over the last one-three months.<\/h2>\n<p>Specifically, all types of maize have registered a downward turn of prices for the past one to three months in the range of 10-18 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Also, soybean prices have decreased 4.3 per cent between August 13 and September 10.<\/p>\n<p>The main harvesting season in northern sector of Ghana, which started in August, may have had some influences in the direction of prices.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, millet, sorghum and all types of rice have recorded upward price movements over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, compared to three months ago, sorghum, all types of rice, and soybean have experienced upward price movements.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, the price of all types of rice increased between 13 per cent and 15 per cent, while the prices of soybean increased by 17.3 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Policy responses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government continues to implement mitigation measures such as fertiliser subsidies and benefiting from supports from development partners such as Yara International, which committed $20 million towards procuring 20,000 metric tonnes of NPK fertiliser to reach 100,000 smallholder farmers. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"6171ef365e3bab554daf92f5-text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '771749920311523', {}, {agent: 'pljoomla'});\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script type=\"6171ef365e3bab554daf92f5-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t\t\t\t  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=342494502508165\";\n\t\t\t\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t\t\t\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENERALLY, a mixed result is seen in price changes over the last one-three months. Specifically, all types of maize have registered a downward turn of prices for the past one to three months in the range of 10-18 per cent. Also, soybean prices have decreased 4.3 per cent between August 13 and September 10. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[11365,2874,601,5182],"class_list":["post-1221813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-commodity","tag-mixed","tag-prices","tag-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221813","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=1221813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}