Food prices keep soaring in the Tamale Metropolis as prices for the month of April shoot higher compared to prices in the last two previous months.
A bowl of wheat, which was sold for GH₵30 in March, is now selling at GH₵35, while a bowl of gari, which was sold last month for GH₵17, is now going for GH₵20
Last month, a bowl of local rice was GH₵13, however, it shot up to GH₵16 in this month of April.
A bag of millet which was sold for GHc590 now sells at GH₵640, while a bag of maize is now sold in Tamale at GH₵320 and groundnut going for GH₵640.
A bag of dry pepper is going for GH₵400, while the only legume, beans which witnessed slight reduction in price, has a bowl going from GH₵25 to GH₵22.
Soybean gained slight price upward to sell at GH₵12 a bowl this month from GH₵11 last month.
By Comfort Sena Fetrie-Akagbor, GNA
