Ghana: Sekondi-Takoradi vegetable growers falling out of business
Many farmers are now drifting to other regions particularly Kumasi in the Ashanti Region where prospects of vegetable farming are good.
The gloomy and unpredictable vegetable business in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis is mainly attributed to the use of a heavily polluted stream to water the vegetables.
The GNA’s survey also revealed that traders prefer selling vegetables cultivated in Kumasi and openly invite buyers by shouting “This vegetable is from Kumasi”.
Vegetables traders Maame Adjoa, Auntie Akosua and Maame Adjoa told the GNA that they got most of their vegetables from Kumasi and this situation had forced some vegetable farmers to abandon their trade and return to Burkina Faso.
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