The government has been urged to introduce policies to reduce the cost of production and transport of staple food and fish items such as large onion, tomato, fresh and smoked herrings, and kenkey and fish to market centres.
That, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) stated that would help increase their production and reduce their cost on the market in order to help control inflation to bring relief to the citizens.
A Data Scientist at the GSS, Simon Tichutab Onilimor, made the call yesterday in Accra stakeholders' engagement on consumer price inflation, and staple food continue to drive inflation up since 2018.
The objective of the engagement was to foster collaboration and dialogue among key stakeholders, including government officials and the media on Consumer Price Inflation (CPI).
