In the Upper East Region, 25.5% of agriculture businesses were hard hit by the pandemic. “The Upper East and Volta Regions are border towns and the lockdown affected the borders so a lot of inputs did not come through as expected. The lockdown was implemented in the Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions but agribusiness firms in the Greater Accra Region were less affected than their counterpart in the Ashanti Region. However, the negative impact of Ghana’s partial lockdown affected all the 16 regions of Ghana but three regions that stood out were Ashanti Region, Volta Region and Upper East Region. Interestingly, apart from the Ashanti Region, the remaining two regions; Volta and Upper East did not experience lockdown.

Source: GhanaWeb June 22, 2021 17:14 UTC