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Our economic livelihoods are collapsing – Sunyani ‘MasomMasom’ ginger sellers
“The growers now prefer to sell ginger to the herbal doctor to get a good price,” Auntie Esi said, indicating that their businesses were gradually collapsing because the sellers could not compete with the herbal medicine in pricing.
She attributed the shortage and the price hikes partly to the growing activities of the herbal medicine producers who bought the ginger in commercial quantities for their herbal products.
Auntie Esi, a popular ginger seller, noted that the price had even decreased, saying that in the last season a bag of ginger was selling at GHC7,000 at the farmgate.
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