Agric Minister blames high prices of food items on profiteering | 3NEWS.com

 The , Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, has blamed the high cost of some food items especially in Ghana’s major cities on profiteering.

Clearly, there is some profiteering going, he said on the Ghana Tonight Show on TV3 with host Alfred Ocansey.

“The issue is, you go and buy a basket of let’s say ¢150 of tomatoes, and then it comes to Kumasi and suddenly becomes ¢400, so there is some profiteering going on.”

He further indicated that citizens of some neighbouring West African (W/A) countries are trooping to Ghana to buy foods due to the success of the  (PF&J) initiative.

Dr Afrityie Akoto said that whereas others are going hungry in their home countries due to food shortage, Ghanaians and other residents in Ghana are not experiencing same due to the abundance of foods as a result of the PF&J.

“Without  we’ll be going as hungry as our neighbours around West Africa who are now coming to Ghana as the bread basket to pick our surpluses to the point that we even had to limit it by saying we are temporary banning export of our produce to the neighbouring countries,” he said.

“Of course other west African countries are going hungry that’s why they’re coming to Ghana to pick our food