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Emmanuel Wullingdool, an Agriculture Consultant who doubles as the Executive Director for the Centre for Women in Agriculture and Nutrition (CWAN) has expressed worry that should the Ghana Private Road and Transport Union (GPRTU) increase transport fare by 30 percent, as has been reported by some media outlets, the country could see an exponential increase in the prices of food and food products.

Mr. Wullingdool explained that for a country like Ghana, food prices are directly affected by the increase in prices of fuel at the pumps and the subsequent increase in transport fares. He said this when he spoke on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East.

“What will happen is if you were transporting a bag of maize, from one point to the other at a particular price, and now, that cost of transportation has gone up by a particular margin, then it goes without saying that if you continue to transport the same quantities, you will have to also increase your price,” he said.

Mr. Wullingdool expressed some concern about the possible increment in the prices of fare saying it could not have come at a more worrying time. He explained that currently, farmers are having to deal with increased costs of farm inputs thus making the prices of the food products higher than they would ordinarily be.

According to the Agric Consultant, Ghanaians may need to brace themselves for the rising prices of food.

“Subsidies for the fertilizers under MoFA have drastically reduced. What this means it that people would not only have to deal with the prices of fertilizers going up, but some of the components of farmers production which has a connection with transportation, there will be an increase in that”.

“We are just in February, we have not got to the lean season yet so unless something happens, we are going to more rises in the prices of food going into the leaner season,” he said.

Mr. Wullingdool encouraged government to take deliberate steps to absorb the shock to enable the prices of food to fall.

A1Radioonline.com|101.1MHz| Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith|Ghana

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