A recent market survey has discovered that there has been a shortage of tomatoes at the Sunyani main market. Recently, vegetable traders said: “Tomatoes and onions are scarce in the market nowadays.”
After hours of combing through the main market, no trader was sighted selling tomatoes, however, few of them had onions for sale. The traders said though the market demand had soared for some time now, they could not get the stuff to sell.
The traders, however, attributed the shortage partly to the political instability in neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger, producers of tomatoes and onions respectively. They stated that most customers preferred tomatoes and onions from both countries to the local types because of their quality moisture contents, saying those types did not rot easily.
Source: myjoyonline.com
