Overall food inflation for February was 28.1%, down from 28.3% in January, representing a month-on-month drop of 1.8%, Government Statistician, Prof Samuel Kobina Anim has announced.
Food items that recorded price increases included vegetables, tubers, cooking bananas, and pulses (28.1%), ready-made food and other food products (45.5%), cereals and cereal products (38.6%), and fish and seafood (26.5%), among others.
Non-food inflation for February stood at 18.8%, down from 19.2%, representing a month-on-month decline of 0.9%.
On a regional basis, the Upper West Region recorded the highest food inflation at 49.8% and the second-highest non-food inflation at 24.0%.
