A/R: Ghana Could Experience Onion Shortage In Christmas – Traders Hint | General News

Onion sellers within the Kwadaso municipality of the Ashanti area have forewarned Ghanaians about shortages throughout this 12 months's Christmas festivity.

According to the merchants, over 90% per cent of onion sellers have withdrawn from the enterprise as a result of Ghanaian cedi's incapability to compete with the CFA and the Dollar.

They disclosed that the onion they've in retailer now could be very small however they can not purchase extra as a result of steady fall of the cedis towards the CFA.

The aggrieved merchants lamented subsequently that they used to alter few quantities of the cedis to get extra CFA however now they've to alter extra cedis to get solely 10 CFA.

“The onion sells at the same price as it has been sold, but we have increased the price from 200 cedis to 500 cedis due to the rise of the CFA. When you import the goods to sell, you will not fetch much; you will have to add up to buy the CFA which is the biggest challenge” mentioned Alhaji Santasi, one of many aggrieved merchants.

Also “our businesses are collapsing due to high duties,” he added within the interview with Angel News' Bismark Mensah noting that what they pay as duties is cash lower than GHc2000.

According to him, many individuals preserve quitting the enterprise which is worsening the unemployment state of affairs among the many youth because the merchants make use of over 500 youth available in the market.

They, subsequently, are calling on the government to as a matter of urgency intervene and remodel the financial state of affairs within the nation whereas coping with the gas costs as a result of the value of gas can be compounding the issue.